Publishing success 2012 (Cont'd)

One lovely success in 2012 was the launch of Pangea, an anthology of stories compiled by Rebecca Lloyd and Indira Chandrashekar, in which one of my stories 'Shuttered Landscape' was chosen. In connection with it, I was interviewed by Rumjhum Biswas and Sarah Hilary.



Pangea: An Anthology of Stories from Around the World

Flash Fiction Chronicles 

Crawl Space 

My story, Snipping with Scissors, was placed in the honorable mentions list in the The Binnacle Ultra short competition.

The Binnacle

Published in 2012

The year was a quiet one, I did not write much but I had two very special successes, one was a story in the Rose and Thorn Journal, a ezine I like very much. I learnt later that the journal was closing down, a pity because they always brought out quality stuff. Rose and Thorn, I'll miss you. The second special success was being a featured writer in Spark magazine along with some very talented writers - Hema Shanta Raman, Abha Iyengar, Anu Kumar and Deepika Mukherjee. Here are the links to the stories:

Accident (Rose and Thorn Journal)

Two Stories in Spark Magazine

Coming back

Returning to my blog after a LONG time. This is just a promise to myself to come back.

November Successes

'Repossession' - a flash came out in Linnet's wings,

also got a story in Static Movement Online

and a poem in Everyday Poets 

A story and a poem

A story is out in The Shine Journal

and a poem in Everyday Poets

A Short Humour

A story in Short Humor

A translated story

In Muse India

Translated Chandrika's story for Muse India's issue focussing on Malayalam literature.

This is the Sept/October 2009 issue

Two Stories

In 4Indianwoman Slices of Life and Spurious Promises

In Shine Journal

Three poems and a photograph in Shine Journal

Published

Two credits this month, a drabble and a poem. 

Drabble is here http://flashscribe.net/?p=416

and the poem is here  http://www.everydaypoets.com/chocolate-seduction-by-fehmida-zakeer/

Both are firsts, so you can guess the excitement. 

Women's International Perspective

My article on student NGOs came out in WIP, read it here...http://thewip.net/contributors/2008/11/students_in_india_take_social.html

I really enjoyed doing this story.

Foray into Fiction

I sent my story 'The Oleander Flowers' to the Quick Tales contest organised by Live Journal and Caferati. It made it to the first 100 short list...

Read it here...http://quick-tales.livejournal.com/16855.html

Trying out fiction

I have been dabbling with fiction for some time now, and this has given me a chance to accumulate some more rejection letters, here is one such attempt returned to me by a kind editor...

Unwelcome Guest

Crackety crack, my eyes fly open, was it real or was it my fertile imagination at play even during sleep? I close my eyes but open it an instant later, this time I am sure, it is real. I sit up and train my torch towards the source of sound - the balcony door. Yes, I do seem to have a visitor in the dead of the night.

I almost scream but the hands of the clock poised around the numeral three still me into silence. I gather all the courage I have at my disposal at that time and switch on the light, but I see no one. I push open the balcony door in a vain attempt at bravery, then I sit down to wait and watch.

Minutes tick by, and as sleep threatens to overwhelm, I ponder, is my visitor smarter than me? My eyelids wobble under the weight of slumber; a slight movement jerks it open in a jiffy. Now I see my tiny guest making a move towards the door, whew thank goodness - I jump up to close the door but I am too fast and the visitor comes back to the safety of my room.

Seconds tick past, I see the rat slowly making a move again, I wait till it is well and truly outside, then I jump and close the door. I sleep in peace, "I am smarter than my rodent visitor"