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This piece includes references to suicide that some readers may find distressing. We had spent a long time getting ready…

By the time I see the lights of the guard post, it feels like night is already coming. The last…

August 1977, Jaffna The year that I turned eleven, every Wednesday, when school was over, I would skip the two…

We were stacked high and narrow in that terraced Victorian house. The attic contained two bedrooms, one of which always…

what your God adorns is straight and white, expected.   otherwise, suddenly there’s more at stake.    your mother spasms   &…

My back hurts; my head throbs; my shirt is sticking to me, tight against my skin. The sun is high,…

It is not the first time a tourist has died here, but it is the first time a tourist has…

Every patient tells a story. It is written on our bodies when we don’t have the words to share. I’m…

I’ll never forget that evening. I was sitting where the late sun falls on our threshing area, hulling broad beans.…

the body that I love lives somewhere between the 3rd and 4th surgeries. before venom coarsed its veins, pursuing survival once…

Paris, 19 August 2021 Chère Simone, My latest attempt to write your story is a failure. ‘Laboured,’ says my editor,…

On the day of the storm, the Natural History Museum of Jerusalem was flooded, its glass display cases shattered, and…

‘Love-life’ was shortlisted for the 2019 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.   How’s your love-life? my father asks. He is drunk. We…

‘The Night of Hungry Ghosts’ was shortlisted for the 2019 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.  

How Scotland Erased Guyana from Its Past

'Goat' was shortlisted for the 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Read more about the Prize here.