Short story selected for the 2010 New Asian Writing Short Story Anthology “You know, Garrison sahib came every Friday at five o’clock to have two special fish fries and one cup of special tea to Happis Grills. Mary memsahib came…
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‘Going Home’ by Mithran Somasundrum (England)
Short story selected for the 2010 New Asian Writing Short Story Anthology At the time, the sign on the noticeboard seemed too good to be true: “Going home after twelve years in Japan. Everything free, you move. First come/First served.” …
‘Ghosts in the Classroom’ by Paul King (USA)
Short story selected for the 2010 New Asian Writing Short Story Anthology It was a normal day like any other in southern Thailand — hot. Wooden fans creaked sleepily above my head and those of my forty-seven twelve year-old students.…
‘Island. House.’ by Phil Dodd (England)
Short story selected for the 2010 New Asian Writing Short Story Anthology 1 Rain came that evening and instead of a sunset there was a slow greying of the air and decrease in contrast until everything beyond the lake vanished…
‘Viper’ by Giacomo Lee (England)
Short story selected for the 2010 New Asian Writing Short Story Anthology My name, ‘brigandish — enemy of the state —- stooge.’ At my age, I wish I was able to be so revolutionary. It’s a young man’s game, and I see…
‘I Woke Up Last Night and I Cried’ by Sushma Joshi (Nepal)
Short story selected for the 2010 New Asian Writing Short Story Anthology I woke up last night and I cried. This is all too much, I thought. I can’t handle it. My husband’s been gone for six years and he…
‘Mangoes’ by Trirat Petchsingh (Thailand)
Short story selected for the 2010 New Asian Writing Short Story Anthology Soon after my discharge from the army, I’d gotten a job driving a pickup truck delivering supplies to a general store in a remote valley about four hundred…
‘True Friendship’ by J.C. Martin (Malaysia)
Short story selected for the 2010 New Asian Writing Short Story Anthology “The sea is never always calm, The sky, sometimes, not blue, But nothing on Earth can ever change The friendship we hold true!” I remember fighting back tears…
‘A Single Step’ by A.D. Thompson (USA)
Short story selected for the 2010 New Asian Writing Short Story Anthology I know it is my midlife crisis, numerically – I’m 40, and in my bones; they ache. I am hauling a 30 pound rucksack over about eight mountain…
‘Adolescence’ by Mohammad Aljarmoshi (Jordan)
Short story selected for the 2010 New Asian Writing Short Story Anthology A snow-white ceiling, an electric lamp in the middle. This was the first image my eyes captured; I closed them promptly trying to catch the train of somnolence…
‘A Home – Away from Home’ by Uma Balu (India)
Short story selected for the 2010 New Asian Writing Short Story Anthology It was a cool, pleasant evening. Birds were chirping happily and tiny squirrels were playing around. Lolita enjoyed listening to those delightful sounds of nature as she watered…
‘The Rage of a New Ancestor’ by Pranav S. Joshi (Singapore)
Short story selected for the 2010 New Asian Writing Short Story Anthology In 1965, India had more banyan trees than toilets across the entire country. Under one huge banyan tree, fifty-one tribesmen, naked down to their loincloths, squatted on the…