Consulate

The Abortionist

Anjali Enjeti -

During the seventh procedure that night, light from the moon pierced the single, circular window. Zero could guess, nearly to the minute, how much...

Firdaus, The Beautiful

Ash Kaul -

“Boi!” Firdaus’s shrill call to her brother breaks the rumble of the river. Hanif shoots a glance at her. She is holding the net high above...

A Perfect House is Where No One Lives

Karan Kapoor -

The house on the corner of a nameless street in Uttam Nagar wasn't a particularly beautiful house. The dusty black tile on the wall...

Enlightened

Robin Terrell -

I expected no one. The door buzzer startled me. No one knew I was here, except the women, and the friend who’d lent me...

Odds

Keri Bertino -

Naturally, when Lisa told me she was pregnant I wanted her to get tested, to find out our chances of producing a kid who'll...

Summer

Anisha Bhaduri -

The summer I turned nine, I spent with my grandparents. Thin and trusting, nails bitten down to the nub, hair so dry it could...

Herbs

Ysabelle Cheung -

A body, a rock, a towel, a plastic starfish, wet sand on her calves: she catalogues these things slowly. God, I’m old she thinks to...

Maggie in the Mills

David Moloney -

Erin only left for Indo-Burma two days ago, but it feels longer, and Maggie is fixated on counting the time until her return. Twelve...

The Stars Walk Backward

Michele Filgate -

Gigi stands on the peeling steps of her gray deck in Connecticut and stretches forward over her dull, worn wooden cane to prune a...

World Peace Now

Lydia Conklin -

Logan walks up East Wash and joins the masses protesting Scott Walker’s anti-union bill. She wears the University of Wisconsin Teaching Assistants’ Association t-shirt...