In My Father’s House - by Suneeta Peres da Costa 
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In My Father’s House - by Suneeta Peres da Costa 

We are / on land but the water is rising. Baby frogs, escaped / from the long-unused well, are found, delicate as / foreskins, among the Macau china …

This is part of our new 5-piece suite from South-Asian Australian writers inspired by the COVID situation in India and the Australian response

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Athai - by Lakshmi Narayanan
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Athai - by Lakshmi Narayanan

Athai ruthlessly elbowed them and pulled me to the front, so I could get an unrestricted view. This was no joke. We were in a mosh pit now and Lord Shiva was Kurt Cobain …

This is a love song to an aunt on the other side of the world - written as part of our new 5-piece suite from South-Asian Australian writers inspired by the COVID situation in India and the Australian response

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King of Sweets - by Atul Joshi
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King of Sweets - by Atul Joshi

Baba believed in kismet and Yaseen believed in Baba. He had come here, started uni, then went into lockdown …
It’s time to go home, the Prime Minister said on TV. If you can’t support yourself, there’s an alternative. Return to your home country.

A short story set in Western Sydney - as part of our new 5-piece suite from South-Asian Australian writers inspired by the COVID situation in India and the Australian response

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Reality Check - by Jocelyn Prasad
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Reality Check - by Jocelyn Prasad

I was more at home among backpackers and their well-thumbed copies of Lonely Planet. The real Indians were out of my reach. They were so self-assured in their Indianness that I felt like a fraud, like someone who arrived late to a party and couldn’t find her way in …

A moment of memoir - as part of our new 5-piece suite from South-Asian Australian writers inspired by the COVID situation in India and the Australian response

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Agency - by Tasnim Hossain
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Agency - by Tasnim Hossain

‘Well, they shouldn’t have gone back in the first place, not during a pandemic,’ said Denny … ‘They all live on top of each other, so what do you expect? Diseases just waiting to spread.’

A short story - as part of our new 5-piece suite from South-Asian Australian writers inspired by the COVID situation in India and the Australian response

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