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  • All Issues
    • Pratibhāsika (Speculative Fiction, July 2026)
    • The Many Lives of Atlas A (Special Issue, January 2026, Web Edition)
    • Fictile Feelings (Poetry Special, October 2025)
    • Issue 4 (April 2025)
    • Murals (December 2024)
    • Issue 3 (April 2024)
    • Wee Hooghly, Issue 1 (January 2024)
    • Issue 2 (October 2023)
    • Issue 1 (April 2023)
  • Weekly Features
    • Craft
    • Culture
      • Faith
      • Film/TV
      • Food
      • Literature
      • Music
      • Mythology
      • Satire
      • Science
      • Society
      • Sports
      • Theatre
      • Wildlife
    • Humour
    • Photo Essay
    • Translation
    • Travelogue
    • Book Review (Till Feb 2025)
    • Weekly Features Archive (October 6, 2024 and Before)
  • ASAP Corner
    • Books
    • Commentary
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    • Film/TV
    • Magazines/Journals
    • Music
    • Remembrance
  • The Writer’s Gauntlet
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    • Founding Editors
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The Many Lives of Atlas A (Special Issue, January 2026, Web Edition)

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Pratibhāsika (Speculative Fiction, July 2026)

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Fictile Feelings (Poetry Special, October 2025)

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  • The Writer's Gauntlet with Sadie Kaye

    The Brain Behind 17 Types of Feedback You Should Never Give Senior Colleagues If You Want to Be Successful.

    27 August 2026

    I just recorded a podcast based on my experience editing an anthology of short fiction. ‘Never, ever, describe speech using anything other than “said,”’ I opined.

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    How Far Up The Glass Escalator Can Mediocre White Man With An MFA Fall? Pretty Fucking Far!

    13 August 2026

    Kelly Field Trained For A Decade To Understand Human Behaviour; Remains Completely Baffled By Her Own.

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  • ASAP Corner - Books

    “The Strangeness Within: On Rajyabardhan Dhal Mahapatra’s Short Stories” by Kathiravan Annamalai

    25 August 2026

    To read Mahapatra’s stories is to experience defamiliarisation, which occurs when the literary language disrupts habitual perception by making the ordinary appear extraordinary and the extraordinary disturbingly ordinary.

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    “Review: The Candyman’s Trumpet Issue 14 – Afghan Women Poets” by Jan Lee

    18 August 2026

    “Balan: The Boy – Some Childhoods Are Not Remembered, They Are Mourned” by Neetha Prasad

    11 August 2026

    “Babydoll Dresses and Dirty Minds: How Art Suffers from Perversion” by Gabby Woehr

    7 August 2026
  • Humour - Weekly Features

    “Never in England” by Norma Hart

    23 August 2026

    If an English person were asked where our Midwest was, they’d know the person who asked was probably American.

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    “Merci, Mimi” by Curtis C. Morgan

    23 August 2026

    “I Rot with Impatience” by Michael Fowler

    9 August 2026

    “The Day the Stork Died” by Patrick Carella

    9 August 2026
  • Humour - Weekly Features

    “Merci, Mimi” by Curtis C. Morgan

    23 August 2026

    If you have ever bought a transit ticket in a European city, you know the particular humiliation of it.

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    “Never in England” by Norma Hart

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    “The Day the Stork Died” by Patrick Carella

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  • The Writer's Gauntlet with Sadie Kaye

    Art Witch Lindsey McAlister Accidentally Starts Glitter-Fuelled Revolution in Teen Mental Health! The Vibes Are Immaculate But Impossible To Vacuum.

    20 August 2026

    If my protagonists sued me for emotional distress, at least I’d know I let them feel the full range of human messiness instead of wrapping them in narrative bubble wrap.

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    The Brain Behind 17 Types of Feedback You Should Never Give Senior Colleagues If You Want to Be Successful.

    27 August 2026

    How Far Up The Glass Escalator Can Mediocre White Man With An MFA Fall? Pretty Fucking Far!

    13 August 2026

    Kelly Field Trained For A Decade To Understand Human Behaviour; Remains Completely Baffled By Her Own.

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