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Fiction and Poetry

“Words, words, words.”

Fiction

Jacks

Kaitlin Roberts -
In bed, a few weeks before Christmas, my boyfriend is scrolling through his phone after sex, looking for something to put in his cart....
Fiction and Poetry

Nervosa

T.N.V. Ray -
"A shattered glass carcass piled up on the asphalt"
Fiction and Poetry

When the Ashes Come to Hunt

Abhishek Kar -
            The village folk looked up as the sky changed colour from a lighter shade of grey into a...
Fiction and Poetry

The Normandy Stretch

Aishwarya Khale -
Sit on the porch, Normandy moors Stretch, dream of dried flowers with no fragrance, did they ever bloom in silent fields and wooded shades. Plateau yield overgrown grass, Stand there;...
Flash Fiction

Twelve Steps

Pritha Deshpande -
There are twelve steps between me and redemption.  When I take the first one and see my death looming before me, yawning open like the...
Dispatch

‘Dispatch 2022’ | Creative Writing Competition

ALMA Staff -
Our annual creative writing competition 'Dispatch' welcomes fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction. The winning entry will receive $250.
Poetry

Dilli Meri Jaan

Brinda Gulati -
‘bhaiya, ek coke aur ek camel light’.
Flash Fiction

Friday

Tara Rao -
"It was simply imperative to understand the psychology of a man before roping him in and rendering him spent."
Flash Fiction

Lost and Found

Devika Goswami -
“She had everything she needed: a little bit of laundry-change that she scraped off the dining table the other night, some water, her half-eaten lunch, a comic book and a tiny slip with her address scribbled on it.”
Fiction and Poetry

Simpler Thing

Ditsa Majumder -
““But now, we are walking backwards until we collide. We are talking of women and their men, of the wall, of the weather. Of us. “Does it trouble you too?” I ask.”
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