![Before the War](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/beforethewar-470x140.jpg)
She leaned back against a bit of plywood spraypainted with hieroglyphics that had once signified a neighborhood swept and cleared. Her piousness was a beacon,…
![Property](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/property-470x140.jpg)
“I hate you!’ Maya cried and dashed to the bedroom, kicking the door behind her. The heavy door, solid seasoned-teak, swayed but stopped short of…
![A Curious Thing Happened](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/curious-470x140.jpg)
If she had known what lay in store for her that day, she might have worn better shoes. She had squeezed her feet into narrow…
![The Visit](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/visit-470x140.jpg)
Garland Breazeale was the last lawyer remaining in the courthouse’s library. Of course, “library” was a generous description for the cramped space in the building’s…
![The Old Suitcase](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/suitcase-470x140.jpg)
“Here take this”, Radha plonked a big old VIP suitcase in front of me, “one of the locks is broken, but I don’t think that…
![Fly Girl](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/flygirl-470x140.jpg)
I haven’t thought about her in two days. Guilt guiding my feet, I climb the rickety wooden ladder to the attic, wipe the dust off…
![Theodore](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/theodore-470x140.jpg)
Theodore Gabriel Watson awoke early on the day he was to unintentionally kill a fifteen-year-old white girl, feeling like a diseased mouse had crawled inside…
![A Cold Winter's Night](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/coldwinternight-470x140.jpg)
She laid there, in quiet repose, as though I might wake her from her slumber. All the energies in the world could perform no such…
![The Spider Story](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/spiderstory-470x140.jpg)
I A mature, female spider needs to know how to make proper webs. But spider A was still struggling. First, she was reluctant to make…
![Move Forward](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/CHERRYCHAN-470x140.jpg)
Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to the opening night of Operap, the musical experiment. I am Coby Sunders, the producer of the show. I am also…
![The Myth and the Miserable](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/gitanjali-470x140.jpg)
I was in love with a mythical creature for the longest time. I didn’t meet her by the sea; she wasn’t washed ashore by a…
![All the Love in the World](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/rosen-470x140.jpg)
The year after she left, my mother visited our house in San Diego only twice. The first time, she came with a U-haul truck and…
![Unforgotten](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ghosh-470x140.jpg)
It was the day before Christmas in Calcutta. It was 1997, and the city, like its name, still retained much of its old world charm….
![Pale-hued Existentialism](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/georgeparacka-470x140.jpg)
Another loveless year is past. I am growing old now. Twenty six, at some impressionable age long ago seemed way too old for anymore fun…
![After She Was Gone](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/susmitabhattacharya-470x140.jpg)
The phone rang. Papa was in his usual place in front of the telly, watching Call My Bluff, and muttering why Mummy wasn’t home yet….