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How to Survive the First 24 Hours After Watching ‘Obsession’ With Your Partner
Disclaimer: Contains major spoilers for the film Obsession, directed by Curry Barker. Between AI slop, El Nino and wars in every country, it’s been a rough week but your girlfriend is adamant about watching This…
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Bhagwan Ji
Bhagwan Ji
All of them sat in a corner of Sashi Master’s living room as it rained heavily outside. In his modest house, the living room was the only place where they…
Moros and Cassandra
Moros’ corporeal form is an awkward tangle of too-long limbs and too-narrow hips, neither of which ease his drive through the congested streets of lower Manhattan. He quite enjoys the…
The Beckoning Reeds
On a dismal autumn afternoon, Eleanor Lytton made her way along a narrow boardwalk through the reeds and cattails of a desolate marsh. Leaves had long since fallen, and the…
The Trump Bobblehead
Finding a place to live in Philly on a part-time income took much work. And at one point, I told my best friend, Bryan, that I’d probably stay at my…
The clock’s ticking, Karl
‘Twas one of those days one starts by referring to the old self with numbers and using the word ‘twas. Well, I wasn’t sure if it even was day already,…
Expecting
How long did it take to know a person? Two years? Six? She’d been married to John five years, but sometimes she felt she didn’t know him at all. Or…
Jacks
In bed, a few weeks before Christmas, my boyfriend is scrolling through his phone after sex, looking for something to put in his cart. “Have you ever used a weighted…
Seasons
“The changing of personalities, the unconscious smiles, the problematic views.”
Control
“His ship has gone down on this occasion, as it has many times before, but he knows he will sail again and the same sea will be waiting to engulf…
Dear Friend
This entry won 5th place in the Dispatch 2020 creative writing competition
To Those Who Find Us
This entry won the first position in the Dispatch 2020 creative writing competition
Ganan
This entry won the 2nd position in the Dispatch 2020 creative writing competition
The Haircut
"The last time she had a drastic haircut, she still had Tamanna in her life."
An Interview with Bill Dickson
"I hope you will allow me, at this juncture, to make a parenthetical detour. An artist must from time to time wrench himself from his canvas and inspect its colourful…
Pool
"Do you even know how to use a condom?"
City Lights
"It’s quite fine, you suddenly notice—the panoramic view, the Calacatta marble, the artwork, the baby grand. It is what you’d always wanted, but you don’t cherish it one bit."
Eyes Wide Open
"But what he felt now, this chill of delight, this yearning after something that maybe he would never see again—was it not the richest thing he had?"
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How to Survive the First 24 Hours After Watching ‘Obsession’ With Your Partner
Sneha Sebastian
Climate Displacement and the Security Crisis in the Bay of Bengal
Daksha Gupta
The Well of Love in Translated Literature: Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s Taiwan Travelogue
Kovida Mehra
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