Stories

When I came home there were strange people in my house, and they gathered tight at the front door to…

Chocolate: what even is chocolate? A mood fix; a thing wrapped in plastic or foil; the product of modern-day, less-acknowledged…

I live in Thalassery, a former British port town on Malabar Coast of Kerala. I am driving a twenty-minute journey…

I am reading a book about circus life. The author is a Japanese man who fell in love with a…

Turning the steep bend around Mt. Marsabit; the elation is so strong I feel it even now. It is the…

A story circulated among the Nigerian community in Dakar. Somewhere in the city, a long-forgotten pimp returned alive. No one…

'Cow and Company' won the overall 2016 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and the regional prize for Asia.   ‘Where is the…

'The Human Phonograph' won the overall 2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and the regional prize for Europe.   And as…

'Let’s Tell This Story Properly' won the overall 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and the regional prize for Africa.   If…

'We Walked on Water' won the overall 2013 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and the regional prize for Canada.   Land…

'Two Girls in a Boat' won the overall 2012 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and the regional prize for the Pacific.…