My name is Malti. I was named after a flower, my grandmother told me, but she couldn’t tell my...
Malti – Marzia Rahman
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Masks and Balloons – Marzia Rahman
Photograph - Aritra Sanyal Back then, Baba sold balloons; Ma worked as a cook in two houses. And...
Completed | The Antonym December Flash Fiction Contest – Announcement
We, at The Antonym, are delighted to announce the results of the flash fiction contest that was...
Empty Nights— Lynne Knight
Winning story, The Antonym December Flash Fiction Contest Soon it would be dawn. He’d wandered the...
The Dream He Forgot – Marzia Rahman
The Antonym December Flash Fiction Contest FinalistAnd the days smell like copper. And the nights...
Halka Hata – Leona Cicone
The Antonym December Flash Fiction Contest FinalistAs I ran down the street, everything blurred...
The Last Prayers – Abha Iyengar
The Antonym December Flash Fiction Contest FinalistThe monk walked down the dark, deserted lane,...
The Lighthouse – Jonathan Howard Sonnenberg
The Antonym December Flash Fiction Contest FinalistYears had passed since he had seen the shores...
Cat-eyed Poet – Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés/ Sohini Ghose
Young, shy, cat-eyelined wannabe poet showed up to my office hours in search of a mentor.