Silverfish New Writing 7

Edited by Ashraf Jamal and Shanti Moorthy. .. stories cannot merely renounce the present dilemma and limits, they must also address them ... in this collection, we find ourselves between memories and desire, the old and the new. However, even in the stories that seem more familiar we find a subtle ungrounding or vertigo. It is as though the story writer today finds themselves resembling Marcel Duchamps' bride: stripped bare, or, like Shakespeare's Lear: a bare forked animal stripped of custom and tradition, the dull toll of faith, bereft and wondrous in a strange unbounded place of possibilities. - Introduction, Ashraf Jamal & Shanti Moorthy