Note 57
Fifteen stories open the fifteenth-year of Out of Print, each one selected from submissions sent in over the past months. Fifteen stories where one of the main characters has a perception or an understanding of themselves that is distinct from the way they are seen or expected to be by other characters, or by society in the world elaborated on in the story.
The stories are listed below:
- Six-Anna Ticket by Bhagwati Charan Verma, translated from Hindi by Ankita Gupta
- Butterfly by Lindsay Pereira
- God Is in the Space between Us by Farah Ahamed
- Milk Teeth by Thushar Sujir
- The Smoky World of Aravamuthan by Ramanujam Parthasarathy
- Get Ready with Me by Pallavi Chelluri
- The Snake by Vaasanthi, translated from Tamil by Bhooma Veeravalli
- Playing House by Anushka Mehrotra
- The Caterpillar Man by Joshua Lobo
- Escape Case by Jyothi Vinod
- Curse by Nidhi Arora
- Lathi by Rajan Narayan
- My Mother Thinks I Am a Cow by Tanuja Vishwanath
- Kavi Mrityu by Kokum Mukul
- A Second Chance by Anita Agnihotri, translated from Bangla by Rituparna Mukherjee
We usually share our reading of each story in the Editor’s Note, allowing us to revisit and extract from its complexities what led us to choose it, and invest in it, in the first place. For this, our 57th release, we would like, instead, to know what our readers think of the works, what their responses are.
We invite you, to share what you saw in any or all of the stories. You can do so by responding on the Google Form.
We will compile your responses and publish a selection on the Out of Print blog.
The art on the cover of Out of Print 57 is by Vivan Sundaram.