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January 13, 2024
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Selma Carvalho
Notes on a Marriage (Extract)

By Selma Carvalho

The Friday they leave for a weekend in Belgium, Anju discovers Freddo is cheating on her. She doesn’t share her knowledge with him. What she should have said was, ‘Freddo, I’m tired of this shit. This time, I’m leaving.’

Her heart feels like it is going to stop breathing all on its own, distinct from the rest of her. The pain is so intense, she realises it is possible for the rest of her body to survive the carnage, while her heart, expelled from her being like a refugee, would simply die.

Notes on a Marriage (Extract)
Selma Carvalho
March 10, 2017

Beach Shack

Selma Carvalho
March 10, 2017
Beach Shack

By Prashila Naik

Issue no. 3

Joel looked away, embarrassed and yet excited. He had heard stories of how so many boys like him just got 'lucky' with women like these.

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Selma Carvalho
March 10, 2017

Manuelinho's Automobile

Selma Carvalho
March 10, 2017
Manuelinho's Automobile

Translated by Paul Melo e Castro

Issue no. 3

Manuelinho Fernandes had a head for figures right from birth, in Mapuçá. With great patience, he would tot up and check through piles of sums as tall as the Sé in Velha Goa ...

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Selma Carvalho
February 8, 2017

Ramaa

Selma Carvalho
February 8, 2017
Ramaa

By Jayanti Naik

Issue no. 2

Her beautiful body in its full flush of youth would brush against my own young body. a hundred times a day, but that never was a turn-on for me. The thought of marrying her never crossed my mind.

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Selma Carvalho
February 8, 2017

Curry Muncher 2.0

Selma Carvalho
February 8, 2017
Curry Muncher 2.0

By Roanna Gonsalves

Issue no. 2

When the spitters had settled down as the train began to move, I felt conflicting currents within me. I was conscious of my power as a young exotic-looking woman ...

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Selma Carvalho
February 8, 2017

Unmatched

Selma Carvalho
February 8, 2017
Unmatched

By Jessica Faleiro

Issue no. 2

Yes, I've met a lady with a carbon footprint reducing business, an IT consultant who moonlights as a tarot card reader, an artist, a professional storyteller ...

 

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