Winner
of the MILKWEED AWARD
Winter
2004
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Mohammad Nasrullah
Khan and Marlene Amero's story "Donkey
Man" was selected among the 51 best of the 600 stories nominated as
Notable
Online Short Stories of 2003 in The storySouth Million Writers Award
for Fiction.
Congratulations to
Nasrullah and to Marlene!
An
Issue of Blood
By
Mita Ghose
(India)
Why,
God, didn't I ask myself why? What had stilled my instincts and numbed
my brain, preventing me from questioning his reasons for hankering after
little me, a social nonentity, a complete misfit
in his world?
Mr.
Gurupadam's Affair
By
Shireen Joanna
(USA)
He had never felt the slightest sexual
desire. Girls were to him as impossible a dream as good health.
Homecoming
By
Anjana Basu
(India)
The girl seemed to flicker through
the apartment like a bright red streak, chattering thirteen to the dozen,
her shiny boot-button eyes snapping with excitement.
Ayatollah
Khomeini and His Tormentors
By
Abbas Zaidi
(Pakistan)
Even his enemies have not questioned
his honesty, integrity or incorruptibility.
Milne
in Toronto
Letter from Canada
By
Anthony Milne
(Trinidad
& Tobago)
With the delay I had time to hesitate:
did I understand what I was doing? Where I was going?
The
Mother, the Judge, the Balancer
Review of Leila
Seth's Autobiography
By
Anjana Basu
(India)
This is any aunt's life, as she would
tell it sitting by you and waxing eloquent at the end of a party.
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