Smokes & Mirrors – The SmokeLong Interview
In “The Goat in the Math Problem,” what might the area of grass the goat is tethered to represent? I thought I had a pretty good idea toward the beginning… Read more »
Interview – Vestal Review
Morsels of Purple is quite an achievement, with 54 flash pieces chronicling the life of an Indian woman in America. Did you have in mind a specific narrative arc or other… Read more »
Q & A with – The Citron Review
What is your earliest recollection of the desire to write? My son brought writing to my life. One morning, he said bye to me happily when I dropped him off… Read more »
A Q10 Interview – Fevers of The Mind
Q1: When did you start writing and first influences? Sara: My son brought writing to my life. One morning, he said bye to me happily when I dropped him off… Read more »
Micro Interview – The Centifictionist
What inspired the story “The Morning Chai”? While making a cup of ginger chai one morning, I thought about how I like to drink my beverage scalding hot while most… 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 »
No Nest
Morning, I watch from my chair by the window. A fork-tailed swallow flies with mud it deposits in the far nook of the porch. Its mate brings dried grass and… Read more »
When Abu Died
Ammi bared wrists of green glass bangles Yanked gold earrings from reddened lobes Slumped sideways like a burlap sack of rice A wail tearing through courtyards and corners Uncles, aunts… Read more »
Infinity
Newly married, in Ohio, we used to take long, cold morning walks, looping through the suburban neighborhood to the wooded trail across the street. I’d forget my hat and gloves,… Read more »