A new couple drive up a mountain to enjoy a day together, but they’re both waiting for something.
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Waiting
Author: Amita Basu
I'm a writer based in Bangalore, India.
Bukowski & Shakespeare. Some writing; some publications. Another depressive episode, followed by introspection & course correction (ongoing).
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At Play
A young girl spends a summer back home in Calcutta in the 1990s. She makes a new friend. Both girls face crises and contemplate the future of their friendship.
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Highway
A 100-word story.
What I Read: Kafka’s Letter to My Father. Finished Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer. Judith Guest’s Ordinary People. Conan Doyle’s The Lost World (reread after primary school) & The Poison Belt. Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty. Needed a light read, and I’d never read this. This is super-light, touching when it’s not preachy, not a story […]
Lots of stuff.
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The Why and the How
This magic realist/speculative story explores poverty, motherhood, and the ethics of necessity from the PoV of a street-dwelling mother bitch in India.
Voltaire, Hitler. Gladwell, Shakespeare, bipolar disorder, & speculative short fiction.
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School Trip
(Image credit. The photo is neither mine nor of me.) Sledgehammer Lit Mag published my flash story “School Trip” on their wacky and wonderful site. This story about social class and empathy was inspired by a trip to Banerghatta National Park. *** They’re nine-year-olds, too old, so by the time they’re taunting the moon bears […]
Read: Nonfiction & a novel & drama & some short stories.
Wrote & published: mostly short fiction.
Amita Basu 