Here, translation unlocks stories from languages afar, people unknown yet familiar in voices that stun you and resonate with you. Here is your book of world stories
Scammer – Thomas Weedman
Thomas Weedman has been a seminarian, a forklift operator, barista, and a professional gambler. His short stories have appeared in the Acorn Review, TheWriteLaunch, The Paragon Journal, The Penman Review, Marathon Literary Review, Limited Experience Journal, Constellations, Bridge Eight, and forthcoming at SoFloPoJo, DLG Publishing, Running Wild Press, and Drunk Monkeys...
Contagion – Ajay Navaria
Ajay Navaria is the author of two collections of short stories in Hindi, Patkatha aur Anya Kahaniyan (2006) and Yes
Sir (2012), and a novel, Udhar ke Log (2008). He has been associated with the premier Hindi literary journal, Hans...
. (Full Stop) – Soham Guha
Soham Guha writes in his mother tongue, Bengali, and English as well. His works were published in Kalpabiswa.com, Scroll.in, Matti Braun's Monologue, and Mohs 5.5: Megastructure Anthology and Mithila Review. This story is translated from the Bengali by Ranjita Chattopadhyaya...
Bhaisaab’s Bespoke Brides Boutique – Shweta Taneja
Shweta Taneja is a bestselling speculative author from India, most known for her fantasy series, Anantya Tantrist Mysteries. She was shortlisted in the prestigious French award Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire and was awarded the British Council Charles Wallace Writing Fellowship...
The Bilimbi Note – Kizzy Tahnin
Translated from the Bengali by Shamita Das Dasgupta “Do you know why the parrots are green?”Ma used to inquire. Even when she knew how I would answer, she kept asking.Every time she questioned me, I’d ask back, “Why?”Ma pointed…...
Son of Man – Sakyajit Bhattacharya
Sakyajit Bhattacharya is a prominent contemporary writer of Bengali short story. The story is translated by Shamita Das Dasgupta...
Ocean Zero – Andrew Joron
Andrew Joron is a poet, translator, musician and science fiction writer. His books include The Absolute Letter, Trance Archive: New and Selected Poems, The Removes , Fathom, The Sound Mirror, The Cry at Zero among others. Joron teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University...
In Hamlet’s Question – Ritwick Bhattacharjee
Ritwick Bhattacharjee is the author of Humanity's Strings: Being, Pessimism, and Fantasy. He has been awarded with the Prof. Meenakshi Mukherjee Memorial Award. ...
The World’s Last Dispatch – Animikh Patra
The trees are extracting their revenge now.
Don’t be startled. And if perchance you come upon this notebook, and if you are able to make out the language, this shall be a momentous and tragic historical document of our world...