Our Amuse-Bouche series offers little bites once a month to keep you satiated between issues. Dig into a smorgasbord of genres every third Friday of the month!
[fiction] It smells the same, even after all these years—the smell of tens of thousands of prayers exhaled above palms pressed to the heart, thousands of bare feet padding into the prayer room, thousands upon thousands of incense sticks lit in front of the same statues, day in and day out. How could this building […]
In Michelle Whittaker’s debut collection, Surge, we begin in the after. After what is not as important as the life lived after trauma—an afterlife. Though we arrive having already crossed this border safe and sound, an epigraph from Susan Sontag reminds us that we’re still dual citizens: passport carriers from “the kingdom of the well” […]
you have to learn to live with emptiness my mother told me I drank water when I was hungry I drank water the way people hustle onto trains rushing to another city the rain begins in one window but always finds its way to all the others your dog scratches at the white couch I […]
Dorothy Chan is the author of Revenge of the Asian Woman (Diode Editions, Forthcoming March 2019), Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold (Spork Press, 2018), and the chapbook Chinatown Sonnets (New Delta Review, 2017). She is the Editor of The Southeast Review. Visit her website at dorothypoetry.com. 10 Questions for Dorothy Chan: 1. What’s the most recent thing you’ve written? I’m currently working on my […]
Ana mainly explores and depicts themes that have a social element, applying elements of tactile reality such as collage and found objects to issues and situations (non-materials, intangibles) to the reality of today’s society. She is interested in exploring how perspectives work with human conditioning […]
https://lunchticket.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Ana-JovanovskaExperiment_with_A_Fictional_Alphabet-Image-1JPG-e1539651515713.jpg600788Ana Jovanovskahttps://lunchticket.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/lunch-ticket-logo-white-text-only.pngAna Jovanovska2018-10-29 10:00:552019-06-28 21:31:49Spotlight: From Text to Abstraction
[creative nonfiction] This is the year I got old. The orthopedist says there is little I can do. Not about growing older—I already know that—but about my left shoulder. It’s not the athletic injury I thought it was, and there’s no definitive cure. It simply has to run its course, he says, dismissively. The only […]
chews on the strange stillness of his quiet unravel. she knows the undoing—like thread—will be slow & always. same as when he first moved inside of me—i remember. the both of us wide open, one exhale after the other scrawled between my legs. the ground sweats against my foot, familiar with the work. all things […]
Living on Sandy Hook Bay in New Jersey gave me a personal stake in global warming. Superstorm Sandy took a devastating toll on our neighborhood and our beach. I completed the Rising Series five years before Sandy. The series helped me to express the fear 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina imprinted on my psyche. Each year as the destruction from storms stretches around the globe […]
Note from a Loving Friend I. For weeks, high school girls giggled, slipped folded notes to each other, their noses pruned, leaving me on the outskirts, alien that I was. True I had my green card, always in my wallet, but still I did not know why I felt alone in their company. I read […]
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Sherri Cornett’s German immigrant and pioneer roots are set deep into the homesteads around the small south Texas town of Cuero, where both of her parents grew up, met, and married. By the time she settled in Billings, Montana, in 1993, she had lived in eleven cities and, in some of those, several homes. Out of […]
https://lunchticket.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Sherri-Cornett_Portrait_copper-wire-closeup_bs_opt.jpg400300Interviewed by Kristina Ortizhttps://lunchticket.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/lunch-ticket-logo-white-text-only.pngInterviewed by Kristina Ortiz2018-09-24 10:00:122019-06-28 21:39:24Litdish: Sherri Cornett, Artist, Art Curator, Activist
I create art to inspire change. I draw inspiration from artists whose creations are a means to construct dialogue around taboo topics. My art is focused on societal issues that are expressed through painting. Hiding in Plain Sight is a body of work that documents the people of our century, in order for future generations to have an understanding of our present-day experiences. These portraits represent the urban community […]
[fiction] 4 My babysitter is an old bat. Old and mean. She makes me drink water standing by the kitchen table. She won’t let me sit down. After I drink, she pushes me back outside to play. She won’t let me in until lunch at eleven. I play with the other kids in the yard. […]
ache when you came here, you were a shadow on the wall of the episcopalian church on the water, fourteen hours away. you had your mother’s face and father’s eyes. limbs that bent into edges and straw, skinny red lines frowning across your left wrist. a hunger you couldn’t name yet rustled beneath your ribs. […]
Tami Haaland is the author of three poetry collections, What Does Not Return (2018), When We Wake in the Night (2012), and Breath in Every Room (2001), winner of the Nicholas Roerich First Book Award. She earned a BA and MA in English literature from the University of Montana and a MFA in creative writing and literature from Bennington College. Her work […]
A four-letter word that ends in “k.” That’s how my friend, Kristi, used to refer to the color pink. In her youth she was a competitive swimmer, because it was the one sport open to both boys and girls. She writes: “A touch with the fingertips on the kicking feet of the swimmer in front […]
[creative nonfiction] Where did it begin, the pain, the images that haunt me? — La Prieta, Gloria E. Anzaldúa Tyler Clementi was eighteen in 2010. Before he ever became eighteen, he was a toddler. He was a kid with exceptional abilities, and he was known to have taught himself how to play the violin, accompanying […]
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Googling flowers that sound country enough to create my own lemon on a step because it is smart to discuss a field of goldenrods rather than the hood flying up on the old eighty-four ford ranger while we were doing seventy on seventy-five because the truck was a lemon held together by bungee cords, electrical […]
The poet Vijay Seshadri said that “the purpose of poetry is to deal with unprecedented experience.” Poets will use unprecedented language, but few have made poems mostly made up of entirely unprecedented words. Jos Charles’s feeld accomplishes just that, living in an invented and unnamed dialect that is as new as it is familiar. Her […]
https://lunchticket.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/feeld-cover-Jos-Charles.jpg782506Jordan Nakamurahttps://lunchticket.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/lunch-ticket-logo-white-text-only.pngJordan Nakamura2018-08-06 09:40:082019-06-28 22:03:28Writers Read: feeld by Jos Charles
I consider my work a contemplation of the contemporary image. I create through scribbling twisting and interlacing lines creating this mass of interesting shapes. A vital expression is then released and an innovation of an image emerges. I enjoy delving into the psychological portion of my mind through drawing […]
https://lunchticket.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/3_Untitlted-e1530716150635.jpg828800Starr Pagehttps://lunchticket.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/lunch-ticket-logo-white-text-only.pngStarr Page2018-07-30 10:00:582019-06-28 22:14:23Spotlight: We the WOMEN of Changing Girls
i dream about time i dream, that it loves me that time will give Black Bodies more of itself this poem is about a universe where time runs the world this poem is about a universe where time aint got no time for Black Bodies a universe in which time plays chess with Black Bodies check mate. the speaker of […]
https://lunchticket.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/M.-Li-A_Ping_opt-.jpg400300Maurisa Li-A-Pinghttps://lunchticket.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/lunch-ticket-logo-white-text-only.pngMaurisa Li-A-Ping2018-07-23 09:49:562019-06-28 22:15:31À La Carte: another Black Body takes on the role of narrator
LeVan D. Hawkins is a writer, poet, and performance artist formerly of Los Angeles and based in Chicago. In Chicago, he has appeared at the You’re Being Ridiculous storytelling series at Steppenwolf Theatre, Links Hall, the Homolatte Reading Series, This Much Is True Chicago, OUTspoken!, Fillet-of-Solo-Storytelling Festival, and Center on Halsted. Hawkins’s prose has appeared in […]
https://lunchticket.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/admin-ajax.jpeg400300Interviewed by Kristina Ortizhttps://lunchticket.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/lunch-ticket-logo-white-text-only.pngInterviewed by Kristina Ortiz2018-07-16 10:05:252019-06-28 22:16:57Litdish: LeVan D. Hawkins, Writer, Poet, Performance Artist
[creative nonfiction] “Every year, hundreds of thousands of American families become homeless, including more than 1.6 million children. Even a seemingly minor event can trigger a catastrophic outcome and catapult a family onto the streets.” The National Center on Family Homelessness December in Philadelphia had closed in fast, with a sudden shift from the […]
https://lunchticket.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/BLAIR2_opt.jpg400300Angie Blairhttps://lunchticket.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/lunch-ticket-logo-white-text-only.pngAngie Blair2018-07-09 10:15:422019-06-28 22:18:17À La Carte: Safe House
What to Expect When You Become a Bell There will be hands. A litany of them. You will be lifted by the saffron cuffs of a temple priest, tuned lip tapped against your sister’s to synchronize every supplicant heart to the beat of rapture. But don’t fear— between blows, something will persist. You will be […]
https://lunchticket.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/RingHeadshotPhotoJohnZich_opt.jpg400300Laura Ringhttps://lunchticket.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/lunch-ticket-logo-white-text-only.pngLaura Ring2018-07-02 10:17:192019-06-28 22:19:22Spotlight: What to Expect When You Become a Bell / Sea Route
Originally from Moldova, Ruth Madievsky is the author of a poetry collection titled Emergency Brake (Tavern Books, 2016). Her poetry and fiction appear in Tin House, The American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, The Iowa Review, The Rumpus, ZYZZYVA, and elsewhere. She is currently at work on a second poetry collection and book of linked short stories. When […]
https://lunchticket.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Ruth-Madievsky_opt.png400300Interviewed by Adrian Ibarrahttps://lunchticket.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/lunch-ticket-logo-white-text-only.pngInterviewed by Adrian Ibarra2018-06-25 13:25:072019-06-28 22:21:09Litdish: Ruth Madievsky, Poet
“The map is not the territory”-Alfred Korzbyski This quote reveals the physical motivation behind my involvement in creating sculpture. The source of my ideas comes from nature and nature also provides the materials for the pieces themselves. Willow, dog fennel, phragmites, hibiscus, pine bark, bamboo and marsh elder are examples […]
Ming Holden’s essay collection is an experiment. Equal parts essay, memoir, and poetry, with a dash of fiction, Refuge: A Memoir bends genre to immerse readers into the lives of the refugees and political exiles Holden has worked with throughout her life. From Syria to Kenya to China, Holden explores the circular, repetitive trauma that refugees […]
https://lunchticket.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Holden-cvf-frnt.jpg20481365Kori Kesslerhttps://lunchticket.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/lunch-ticket-logo-white-text-only.pngKori Kessler2018-06-04 12:41:342019-06-28 22:50:49Writers Read: Refuge: A Memoir by Ming Holden
[fiction] Your lips taste of dust and salt. Your baby hairs glisten, limp commas and parentheses. In the mirror, you examine your freckles. You avoid looking at your chest. You dip your foot in the water (too hot), force yourself to keep it in, smothering it with one hand. You sink deeper into the bath, […]
https://lunchticket.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Baleo_opt-.jpg400300Marie Baleohttps://lunchticket.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/lunch-ticket-logo-white-text-only.pngMarie Baleo2018-05-28 10:19:242019-06-28 22:24:11Spotlight: Summer of Sola
1. The City on the Hill haunted by all manner of gunshots & protest signs & constricted throats of umbrage. Pundit wolves gnawing at the ballet- slippered sheath of flesh-glazed bones: Poverty is a state of mind. The cloy of fear a cheap perfume-scented cover for panic wafting from corporate person-hoods of deceit & profit […]
The End of Cursive One day, fog rolls up from the pond’s dull mouth, skims our face, dissipates. The songbirds appear misplaced, greedy. How quickly the sparrows drop pathside to scratch for winged seeds lying golden among the goose turds. The fog’s unraveling strands are cursive, you say, scrawled in a vanishing ink. I recall […]
https://lunchticket.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Updated_Sanchez_PaulGussler_opt.jpg400300Lis Sanchezhttps://lunchticket.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/lunch-ticket-logo-white-text-only.pngLis Sanchez2018-05-14 20:34:072019-06-28 22:26:16Spotlight: The End of Cursive / City With Two Exits / Downstream, My Older Brother Holds My Hand
[fiction] Kamla has been through labor five times before in the past thirteen years, but the pain is still unforgiving, shaking and splitting her body. The village lady-doctor, Doctorni, fans Kamla’s face with a tattered punkah in the tiny two-room hospital in Bihar, India, and asks the tall nurse to boil some water. The nurse […]
Spotlight: Pranam
/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Gargi Talukder[fiction] It smells the same, even after all these years—the smell of tens of thousands of prayers exhaled above palms pressed to the heart, thousands of bare feet padding into the prayer room, thousands upon thousands of incense sticks lit in front of the same statues, day in and day out. How could this building […]
Writers Read: Surge by Michelle Whittaker
/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Erica Charis-MollingIn Michelle Whittaker’s debut collection, Surge, we begin in the after. After what is not as important as the life lived after trauma—an afterlife. Though we arrive having already crossed this border safe and sound, an epigraph from Susan Sontag reminds us that we’re still dual citizens: passport carriers from “the kingdom of the well” […]
Spotlight: Immigrant
/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Shuly Xóchitl Cawoodyou have to learn to live with emptiness my mother told me I drank water when I was hungry I drank water the way people hustle onto trains rushing to another city the rain begins in one window but always finds its way to all the others your dog scratches at the white couch I […]
Litdish: Dorothy Chan, Poet
/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Kristina OrtizDorothy Chan is the author of Revenge of the Asian Woman (Diode Editions, Forthcoming March 2019), Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold (Spork Press, 2018), and the chapbook Chinatown Sonnets (New Delta Review, 2017). She is the Editor of The Southeast Review. Visit her website at dorothypoetry.com. 10 Questions for Dorothy Chan: 1. What’s the most recent thing you’ve written? I’m currently working on my […]
Spotlight: From Text to Abstraction
/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Ana JovanovskaAna mainly explores and depicts themes that have a social element, applying elements of tactile reality such as collage and found objects to issues and situations (non-materials, intangibles) to the reality of today’s society. She is interested in exploring how perspectives work with human conditioning […]
À La Carte: IDIOPATHY
/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Laurie Ember[creative nonfiction] This is the year I got old. The orthopedist says there is little I can do. Not about growing older—I already know that—but about my left shoulder. It’s not the athletic injury I thought it was, and there’s no definitive cure. It simply has to run its course, he says, dismissively. The only […]
Spotlight: my sister-wife
/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Faylita Hickschews on the strange stillness of his quiet unravel. she knows the undoing—like thread—will be slow & always. same as when he first moved inside of me—i remember. the both of us wide open, one exhale after the other scrawled between my legs. the ground sweats against my foot, familiar with the work. all things […]
Spotlight: Rising
/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Shari EpsteinLiving on Sandy Hook Bay in New Jersey gave me a personal stake in global warming. Superstorm Sandy took a devastating toll on our neighborhood and our beach. I completed the Rising Series five years before Sandy. The series helped me to express the fear 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina imprinted on my psyche. Each year as the destruction from storms stretches around the globe […]
Spotlight: Note from a Loving Friend / Love and Loss in Ludhiana
/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Sonia AroraNote from a Loving Friend I. For weeks, high school girls giggled, slipped folded notes to each other, their noses pruned, leaving me on the outskirts, alien that I was. True I had my green card, always in my wallet, but still I did not know why I felt alone in their company. I read […]
Litdish: Sherri Cornett, Artist, Art Curator, Activist
/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Interviewed by Kristina OrtizSherri Cornett’s German immigrant and pioneer roots are set deep into the homesteads around the small south Texas town of Cuero, where both of her parents grew up, met, and married. By the time she settled in Billings, Montana, in 1993, she had lived in eleven cities and, in some of those, several homes. Out of […]
Spotlight: Hiding in Plain Sight
/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Jerrell GibbsI create art to inspire change. I draw inspiration from artists whose creations are a means to construct dialogue around taboo topics. My art is focused on societal issues that are expressed through painting. Hiding in Plain Sight is a body of work that documents the people of our century, in order for future generations to have an understanding of our present-day experiences. These portraits represent the urban community […]
À La Carte: Damage [trigger warning]
/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Jeni McFarland[fiction] 4 My babysitter is an old bat. Old and mean. She makes me drink water standing by the kitchen table. She won’t let me sit down. After I drink, she pushes me back outside to play. She won’t let me in until lunch at eleven. I play with the other kids in the yard. […]
Spotlight: ache / therapy session 1
/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Charlotte Coveyache when you came here, you were a shadow on the wall of the episcopalian church on the water, fourteen hours away. you had your mother’s face and father’s eyes. limbs that bent into edges and straw, skinny red lines frowning across your left wrist. a hunger you couldn’t name yet rustled beneath your ribs. […]
Litdish: Tami Haaland, Poet
/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Interviewed by Kristina OrtizTami Haaland is the author of three poetry collections, What Does Not Return (2018), When We Wake in the Night (2012), and Breath in Every Room (2001), winner of the Nicholas Roerich First Book Award. She earned a BA and MA in English literature from the University of Montana and a MFA in creative writing and literature from Bennington College. Her work […]
Bending the Spectrum
/in Amuse-Bouche 2018, Blog / Sarita SidhuA four-letter word that ends in “k.” That’s how my friend, Kristi, used to refer to the color pink. In her youth she was a competitive swimmer, because it was the one sport open to both boys and girls. She writes: “A touch with the fingertips on the kicking feet of the swimmer in front […]
À La Carte: IN THIS BODY, EVERYTHING ALREADY LOOKS LIKE DEATH
/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Akpa Arinzechukwu[creative nonfiction] Where did it begin, the pain, the images that haunt me? — La Prieta, Gloria E. Anzaldúa Tyler Clementi was eighteen in 2010. Before he ever became eighteen, he was a toddler. He was a kid with exceptional abilities, and he was known to have taught himself how to play the violin, accompanying […]
Spotlight: LEMONADE
/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Tucker Leighty-PhillipsGoogling flowers that sound country enough to create my own lemon on a step because it is smart to discuss a field of goldenrods rather than the hood flying up on the old eighty-four ford ranger while we were doing seventy on seventy-five because the truck was a lemon held together by bungee cords, electrical […]
Writers Read: feeld by Jos Charles
/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Jordan NakamuraThe poet Vijay Seshadri said that “the purpose of poetry is to deal with unprecedented experience.” Poets will use unprecedented language, but few have made poems mostly made up of entirely unprecedented words. Jos Charles’s feeld accomplishes just that, living in an invented and unnamed dialect that is as new as it is familiar. Her […]
Spotlight: We the WOMEN of Changing Girls
/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Starr PageI consider my work a contemplation of the contemporary image. I create through scribbling twisting and interlacing lines creating this mass of interesting shapes. A vital expression is then released and an innovation of an image emerges. I enjoy delving into the psychological portion of my mind through drawing […]
À La Carte: another Black Body takes on the role of narrator
/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Maurisa Li-A-Pingi dream about time i dream, that it loves me that time will give Black Bodies more of itself this poem is about a universe where time runs the world this poem is about a universe where time aint got no time for Black Bodies a universe in which time plays chess with Black Bodies check mate. the speaker of […]
Litdish: LeVan D. Hawkins, Writer, Poet, Performance Artist
/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Interviewed by Kristina OrtizLeVan D. Hawkins is a writer, poet, and performance artist formerly of Los Angeles and based in Chicago. In Chicago, he has appeared at the You’re Being Ridiculous storytelling series at Steppenwolf Theatre, Links Hall, the Homolatte Reading Series, This Much Is True Chicago, OUTspoken!, Fillet-of-Solo-Storytelling Festival, and Center on Halsted. Hawkins’s prose has appeared in […]
À La Carte: Safe House
/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Angie Blair[creative nonfiction] “Every year, hundreds of thousands of American families become homeless, including more than 1.6 million children. Even a seemingly minor event can trigger a catastrophic outcome and catapult a family onto the streets.” The National Center on Family Homelessness December in Philadelphia had closed in fast, with a sudden shift from the […]
Spotlight: What to Expect When You Become a Bell / Sea Route
/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Laura RingWhat to Expect When You Become a Bell There will be hands. A litany of them. You will be lifted by the saffron cuffs of a temple priest, tuned lip tapped against your sister’s to synchronize every supplicant heart to the beat of rapture. But don’t fear— between blows, something will persist. You will be […]
Litdish: Ruth Madievsky, Poet
/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Interviewed by Adrian IbarraOriginally from Moldova, Ruth Madievsky is the author of a poetry collection titled Emergency Brake (Tavern Books, 2016). Her poetry and fiction appear in Tin House, The American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, The Iowa Review, The Rumpus, ZYZZYVA, and elsewhere. She is currently at work on a second poetry collection and book of linked short stories. When […]
Spotlight: archiTERRA
/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Marcia Wolfson Ray“The map is not the territory”-Alfred Korzbyski This quote reveals the physical motivation behind my involvement in creating sculpture. The source of my ideas comes from nature and nature also provides the materials for the pieces themselves. Willow, dog fennel, phragmites, hibiscus, pine bark, bamboo and marsh elder are examples […]
Writers Read: Refuge: A Memoir by Ming Holden
/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Kori KesslerMing Holden’s essay collection is an experiment. Equal parts essay, memoir, and poetry, with a dash of fiction, Refuge: A Memoir bends genre to immerse readers into the lives of the refugees and political exiles Holden has worked with throughout her life. From Syria to Kenya to China, Holden explores the circular, repetitive trauma that refugees […]
Spotlight: Summer of Sola
/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Marie Baleo[fiction] Your lips taste of dust and salt. Your baby hairs glisten, limp commas and parentheses. In the mirror, you examine your freckles. You avoid looking at your chest. You dip your foot in the water (too hot), force yourself to keep it in, smothering it with one hand. You sink deeper into the bath, […]
À La Carte: Barack & Michelle Obama Gone Ghetto #1 and #2
/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / henry 7. reneau, jr.1. The City on the Hill haunted by all manner of gunshots & protest signs & constricted throats of umbrage. Pundit wolves gnawing at the ballet- slippered sheath of flesh-glazed bones: Poverty is a state of mind. The cloy of fear a cheap perfume-scented cover for panic wafting from corporate person-hoods of deceit & profit […]
Spotlight: The End of Cursive / City With Two Exits / Downstream, My Older Brother Holds My Hand
/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Lis SanchezThe End of Cursive One day, fog rolls up from the pond’s dull mouth, skims our face, dissipates. The songbirds appear misplaced, greedy. How quickly the sparrows drop pathside to scratch for winged seeds lying golden among the goose turds. The fog’s unraveling strands are cursive, you say, scrawled in a vanishing ink. I recall […]
À La Carte: Mukti (Freedom)
/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar[fiction] Kamla has been through labor five times before in the past thirteen years, but the pain is still unforgiving, shaking and splitting her body. The village lady-doctor, Doctorni, fans Kamla’s face with a tattered punkah in the tiny two-room hospital in Bihar, India, and asks the tall nurse to boil some water. The nurse […]