Ethan

Originally posted on Mary Anne’s old website, in March of 2009. This project grew out of my own experiences having a book published by a major American publishing house.  My original cover was an ‘artsy, literary’ cover, but under market pressure, the cover was changed to an image of a brown-skinned woman with wet skin, […]

Originally posted in Mithila Review, September 21st, 2017 “The term ‘South Asian’ is a broad banner in itself, encompassing different religious and cultural experiences, as well as sexuality and class. Can it be reduced to one distinct identity?’”— Priya Sharma Hosted on a shared Google Drive as our previous round tables, this discussion brings together

Originally posted in Riksha Magazine, April 11th, 2017 His father said:  he saw two men kissing in the street, and it made him angry. I was eighteen the first time I spent the night with another girl, walked back to campus with her the next morning, wanting to hold her hand, afraid to. This is

Originally posted in Uncanny Magazine Issue 12, 2016 “It is not incumbent upon you to complete the work, but neither are you at liberty to desist from it.”—Rabbi Tarfon I was tremendously lonely my first year in high school. My parents had insisted I go to a prep school they could barely afford instead of

Originally posted on Strange Horizons, March 2nd, 2015 Somewhere in my house there’s a videotape of me, playing Spock, on the Enterprise bridge. I was fifteen years old, at Universal Studios, acting out a scene in front of a green screen; the final version had Kirk, the rest of the crew, and the bridge set