by Anjana Basu (India)   *   Life and Death on Shiva's Beach   What is a turtle worth? Worth getting stabbed for? Worth shooting someone for?   by Paul Spencer Sochaczewski (Indonesia)    *   Curses & Poetry Fiction   "Don't fret," Hansabati's maid told her, as she fanned her in the silence of her room at night. "Nothing but good will come of this. It is a girl's duty to get married."   by Anjana Basu (India)   *                                   My Shadow 
                                                    Poetry
  by Razi Abedi (Pakistan)   *   The Burden of Grace A Short Story   "A manifold of deaths, being eaten alive." Better a quick bullet, amply more merciful.   by Vasilis Afxentiou (Greece)   *   A Feast of Crows A Short Story   After 157 years of service, he was neatly and quietly pushed out of his job. Disposable humans. Best if used before 400 years.   by KC Chase (USA)   *   Letter from Caracas   The country's bishops have issued cautions about what may or may not be going on at the shrine in Betania.   by Anthony Milne (Trinidad & Tobago)   * Confessions of a Sentimentalist   I feel, therefore I am.   By Edward L. Wier (USA)   *   Ball of Fire                     Our minds have contrived lights, lamps, candles for us--
                   quite enough for our survival in the impending darkness.
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