The Making of Mango Pickle
The summer breeze sways bunches of green mangoes left and right on the neighbor’s tree which stretches its limbs into your courtyard. The fruit reminds you of the mango pickle… Read more »
Category: #amwriting
How to Get Fired From a Babysitting Job
Respond to job postings within cycling distance of the beat-up apartment you share with three college mates. Get interviewed and hired to sit evenings at a stone-front house with a… Read more »
Lavender
I step out onto the patio and watch the sun slide behind the barn across the road. The bronze highlights the unshaved gray-rooted hairs on my arms. I sit on… Read more »
Common Ground
This piece was published in 100 Word Story. My name is Sara, I say. I’m from India. Never met an Indian with that name, they say. Is it short for… Read more »
Apple Snake
This story was published in the Hennepin Review. The phone vibrates inside my pocket as I sit in the verandah of your house, my childhood home, holding a washed apple… Read more »
Birthday Expectations and Hardening
Two stories published in Ruby Literary: Birthday Expectation Her husband asked her to make pooris for his birthday like his mother did. Round, puffy bread dotted with carom seeds, fried… Read more »
Hunger
Published by ELJ Press in 12/2021: We wanted to wash our hair with shampoo, not with gram flour paste, the grains of which clung like lice eggs. We wanted pads… Read more »
Polka-Dot Scarf
Published by Roi Faineant Press. April was wearing a polka-dot scarf at the picnic where she fell in love. She untied the scarf and swirled it in the air to… Read more »
The Fifth Anniversary
The Fifth Anniversary After the guests leave and taillights fade, the unspoken hostility stays in the room, grown toolarge for the two of us. You insisted on the fifth-anniversary party… Read more »
The Morning Chai
A cup of water at a rolling boil, a teaspoon of Assam tea leaves, lower the heat, add some milk to temper the theine. No instants for me. Not for… Read more »