January 13, 2024

Fiction

Selma Carvalho

By Selma Carvalho

The Friday they leave for a weekend in Belgium, Anju discovers Freddo is cheating on her. She doesn’t share her knowledge with him. What she should have said was, ‘Freddo, I’m tired of this shit. This time, I’m leaving.’

Her heart feels like it is going to stop breathing all on its own, distinct from the rest of her. The pain is so intense, she realises it is possible for the rest of her body to survive the carnage, while her heart, expelled from her being like a refugee, would simply die.

Bina Nayak

Selma Carvalho

March 31, 2020

Fiction

Night-Rider

Selma Carvalho

March 31, 2020

Fiction

By Bina Nayak

Issue no 16

How strange that she was the only one around. Weren’t hospitals supposed to bustle with activity at any given time? Her jaw hurt as she called out, ‘Doctor...nurse?’ The only response she received was the sound of her own feet padding softly in the corridor.