Short fiction is gaining popularity! Here is a competition for short stories that requires you to write 1500 words or...
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There is something about the autumn air in India, a general sense of leisureliness. The slow air touches you in...
The doors to the metro parted. Roshan stared up and down the platform, eyeing the few stragglers that shuffled in....
He slowly drifted into wakefulness with the smell of wood fire burning and its muted crackling. Then the touch of...
Translated from Gujarati by Hemang Desai “You will have known almost every knowledgeable thing about the charms and the temptations...
Bhalla sahab was a dapper little man, always in immaculate suits and peering intensely through his fashionable gold rimmed spectacles....
Monik despised procrastination, that sneaky little pilferer of time and opportunity. Besides, she liked a project. Her love of projects...
Karthi was in love. Whether it was right for him to be in love, being only eight years old, was...
He was not a zombie. Nor was he a ghoul, mummy, wraith, ambulatory skeleton or operatic phantom. He wasn’t even...
Starting this week, Kitaab will bring to you excerpts from Kitaab's The Best Asian Short Stories 2018 and Best Speculative Fiction anthologies. Click...
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