Showing posts with label short story. Show all posts
Showing posts with label short story. Show all posts

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Sex marks the spot

From Nisha Susan's story, 'The Women Who Forgot to Invent Facebook' in Out of Print:

What we need is a website, said Lavanya.

For what, I asked.

For the sex map. Imagine how useful this would be if it was online?

How would it work, I wanted to know.

We would all sign up.

Who is we?

Everyone, said Lavanya.

Why would they?

It would be useful. When you met someone new you could go look them up and find out if they were lying about being single. You could find previous girlfriends and see whether he had good taste or bad taste.

No one would sign up, I said. What a lot of work for nothing. What would all the liars or cheaters do? Have a red light against their name?

Yeah, maybe you're right, said Lavanya. Why would everyone sign up?

 

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Story in Wasafiri

My short story, 'Wordsmith' in the latest issue of Wasafiri.

Again, I have no idea how one can read it except by subscribing/looking for it in your library.

The issue has articles, interviews, poems and stories. Contributors to this issue include Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Nabaneeta, Dev Sen, Keki Daruwalla. And Elleke Boehmer interviews David Attwell, who in turn conducted several interviews with J.M. Coetzee.

Riches! Go read (or borrow/subscribe)!