Such Small Graves

The dead give me my livelihood. There’s no other way to put it. I’ve been a gravedigger for more than 20 years, and I’m automatically grateful to hear of a…..

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11 minutes read

December 22, 2014

Look Brother! I can fly

One dull winter morning, the kind of a morning where nothing of significance happens, where the clouds are a dull grey and the colours of the peacock refuse to excite…..

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11 minutes read

November 20, 2014

Gulp

Editor’s note: We have been getting a lot of submissions for our fiction section on dfuse.in and this one was rather interesting to say the least. It’s slightly away from the rest of…..

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5 minutes read

November 17, 2014

Behind the Curtains

Saroja Madam rang the bell earlier than usual that evening. I pushed my copy of Femina under the pillow and straightened out my hair. Amla rushed in with our make…..

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3 minutes read

November 11, 2014

Nightfall

He would start work at 7pm sharp. Not a minute early, not a minute late. He did his job with pride, standing tall as the little town went about its…..

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November 11, 2014

Womb, Chapter Eleven

Shifa’s love of experimental fiction and feminist theory have contributed to the conception of ‘Womb’, a serialised novel. Here’s chapter one, two, three, four, five, six, seven , eight, nine and ten. My beeper goes off exactly four showers later. I meet…..

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