Month: July 2026
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Darshan – Fiction
At eleven minutes to five on a Monday, with the abhishekam bell about to go, Shanmugam stops being able to finish tying a string of jasmine. The last loop is between his thumb and his first finger. It does not close. The jasmine waits. The woman waiting for the jasmine, green saree, gold at the…
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Nobody’s Epic
The first thing to report about Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey is that it commits the one sin Homer never managed: it feels short. Nearly three hours pass like a fair wind, and I never once wondered how many were left. Time, Nolan’s oldest obsession, is here his only remaining magic trick, and he needs it, because…
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Proof of Husband
Last Thursday, at about 4:40 in the afternoon, my bank’s fraud department called to ask whether I had spent forty-three dollars and seventeen cents at a Shell station in Tukwila. I had not. But before we could discuss it, the woman on the phone, whose name was Denise, asked me to verify my date of…
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The Root of the Flower
We are late enough that I am leaning on the horn now, which I hate, and my daughter, in the passenger seat with her debate folder square on her knees and her eyes on the dashboard because her eyes are always on the dashboard, is not late at all, is exactly on time inside herself…
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