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The Bangalore Review

The Bangalore Review

Vol. XIII | Issue 7 | May 2026

  • Non-Fiction
    • Art
    • Book Reviews
    • Cinema
    • Creative Non-Fiction
    • Culture
    • Literature
    • Memoirs
    • Music
    • Nature & Environment
    • Philosophy
  • Specials
    • Editorial
    • TBR Recommends
    • TBR Roundtable
    • Translations
    • Fiction Special 2024
      • Peripheries – of Being and Living
      • Promises Made and Promises Broken – the NATURE of Things
      • Writing From the Peripheries of Language
      • Queering Language
      • Anthologies – The Editorial Perspective
  • Fiction
    • Flash Fiction
    • Short Fiction
  • Poetry
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
May, 2026

Tracks

She’d started throwing the bottles, the smashed glass in shards, pulling everything out of the trash and hurling it on the ground.
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
May, 2026

Antipodal Sundays

Bill had his assistant google “antipode”. “An antipodal point is the opposite side of the world to where you are.”
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
May, 2026

Cigarettes and Practical Pumps

After Lucian died, Ellen had to figure out what to do with his body, and how to contact his family.
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  • Fiction
  • Flash Fiction
May, 2026

Blood Moon

From our homes around The Hollow, we bore the motley lights of our brief vigil, the diffuse and brilliant smartphone glow,
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
May, 2026

Of Blood and Ink

“Happy belated birthday,” said the other officer, and they both gave me their backs on their way to the cruiser parked on the driveway.
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
May, 2026

Fast And Good Never Agree

How he loved that desk! Of course, he was proud of it, but more than that, it held the memories of a lifetime of service.
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  • Fiction
  • Flash Fiction
May, 2026

Acts of Creation

And they came to the places in which ideas resided. They took from the libraries and the galleries and the museums the books and the artworks that were no longer needed.
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  • Fiction
  • Flash Fiction
May, 2026

Strawberry Juice

While the children gather around my glass enclosure, giggling as my nose twitches at the scent of earth, I think back to what I was taught about being a rabbit when I was a kid.
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
May, 2026

Gabriel’s Touch

On Wednesday morning when the old red Hyundai Sonata makes its way down the gravel drive, pulling up in front of the house,
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
May, 2026

Long Shadows

When he first heard of his father’s illness, it was mentioned in passing: a casual note at the end of a letter from his sister
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  • Fiction
  • Flash Fiction
May, 2026

A Ghost Story

This is the fabric of her evenings: she carves seashells from soap until the basket runs out of unshaped bars and the mosquitoes grow ripe with her blood.
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
May, 2026

An Improper Wife

The bus station was within walking distance, and buses going anywhere and everywhere awaited her.
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
May, 2026

The Flower Boy

The boy was also not without a sense of humor, and would sometimes weave the fronds
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
May, 2026

The Purple Ceiling

Studio RAI seemed able to attract the biggest names, despite the irritating host. Even Mina appeared one Friday evening.
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
May, 2026

Promises, Power, and Pain

He remembered a night not long ago when she had said, “I need you, Brian.” He had arrived home late again
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  • Fiction
  • Flash Fiction
May, 2026

Dear Miss Jessup

The excitement and drama that comes with love and danger struggling against a dictatorship is clearly described in your attempt to flee to Mexico with your lover
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  • Fiction
  • Flash Fiction
May, 2026

Metamorphosis

Fear compels you to become more circumspect about your flights.
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
May, 2026

Witness

Ruth couldn’t remember what they had been doing before, why she decided to linger while the rest of the building hurried to the shelter
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
May, 2026

Jessica

Naturally, Billy did not have many friends. He was simply too inconvenient to have around.
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
May, 2026

Foot In The Stirrup

Her brother, Joesep, has accompanied her because she speaks no English;
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  • Cinema
April, 2026

Many Cinemas of Manipur

Arijit Sen, an independent journalist, writes about Boong, the winner of the best children's film at the BAFTA
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  • Specials
April, 2026

Shamya Dasgupta interviews film maker Soumik Sen

Shamya Dasgupta interviews film maker Soumik Sen
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The Bangalore Review
Vol. XIII | Issue 7 | May 2026

ISSN 2770-0828

Published online every month by Spanning Minds, Inc.

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