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The Bangalore Review

Vol. XIII | Issue 3 | October 2025

  • 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
December, 2020

Scavenging

A dozen donuts popped and sizzled in the deep fryer. As they floated into one another, Cosmo took out a pink box from under the..
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  • Poetry
December, 2020

The Grief Collection

Do not grieve. Anything you lose comes around in another form. -Rumi 1. Why I still see you in the time since then, I can’t..
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
December, 2020

The Lesser King

It’s just an unknown web journal that probably no one reads, but something I wrote has been published. I’m thrilled. You would be, too. I..
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
December, 2020

Trespassing

Their mother knocked on the door and leaned inside quick enough to catch Susan swaying to “The Wallflower” playing on her transistor radio. Elyse, lying..
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  • Creative Non-Fiction
  • Non-Fiction
November, 2020

A Hard Day’s Night in Calcutta

One evening about eight Warren dropped by our apartment unexpectedly.  As he walked in he said, “No surprises here: how did I know you’d be..
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  • Translations
November, 2020

Two Poems by Wróblewski

Translator’s Note I was drawn to Grzegorz Wróblewski’s poems some years ago while reading an anthology of contemporary Polish poetry. This anthology had all the..
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
November, 2020

An Evening with my Father

I noticed the paint coming off the white iron table in the lawn. I had made two steaming cups of coffee, baked some shortbread for..
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  • Poetry
November, 2020

Sent 3:42 am

anais nin said we write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect. she was somebody great. i want to be somebody great...
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  • Poetry
November, 2020

Close to the Head

My Mom said my hair wasn’t rightfor ponytails or pigtails. You’re not a normal girl.A barber’ll know what to do with this mop, she said...
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
November, 2020

Catacomb

The soft, wet grass beneath our rain boots made squelching sounds as we straggled behind the tour group led by a small, dark-haired, Italian woman...
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  • Poetry
November, 2020

Ecclesiastes One: the Space-Time Adventures of Ace Frawley

Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said “God, I love you” and looked up tothe sky and really meant..
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  • Poetry
November, 2020

English as A Second Language

I. Español.  I used to sit in a classroom full of color, where everyone spoke with tongues the color of gold, copper, silver, and salt. Back..
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  • Fiction
  • Flash Fiction
November, 2020

Grocery List

A lock of strawberry blonde hair peeking out from under a fuzzy winter hat freezes me in the grocery store parking lot. The hat is..
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
November, 2020

In Those Days

In those days, there were no wheelie bins, there was no recycling: you put the trash out in round metal cans of the sort you..
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  • Poetry
November, 2020

Kneel

Kneel; Verb/ Honoring Colin Kaepernick Suddenly football, the game and gridiron,      is a man on his knees.What does a patterned patch of cloth mean, the..
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
November, 2020

The Architect

“I need three Model B’s by this afternoon,” said George Oxburn, “And Harrison, nothing fancy.” Oxburn pointed to a sign posted above Ronald Harrison’s cubicle:..
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  • Poetry
November, 2020

Sour Truths

It occurred to me the other dayas I sat slicing and squeezing lemonson a hot summer afternoon,That the life of an urban lemon from birth..
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  • Fiction
  • Flash Fiction
November, 2020

The Tall Man

Inspired by an Oneida Tribal Tale and a Selection from the Longer Story, “Cloven” On a stormy summer night just like this one, just around..
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
October, 2020

Cats

‘I have been thinking about getting a cat for some time,’ my husband said between sips of tea. I looked up in surprise. I had..
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  • Translations
October, 2020

Two poems from Lorinc Szabo

Translator’s Note: Lőrinc Szabó is one of the giants of the Hungarian literary scene of the mid-20th century. He often invoked his children Klara and..
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  • Music
  • Non-Fiction
October, 2020

Consciousness Amid Crisis: Elaquent’s ‘Forever is a Pretty Long Time’ and the Superiority of the Arts in Our Lives

Our longest days are barely over. What feels like a sci-fi feature set in a distant, dystopian future is the current reality for millions of..
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  • Poetry
October, 2020

Excision

“I’m afraid you will not smokemy meaning…”-John Keats Thursday morning he moved himself out of bedbefore any light broke throughthe already broken shadeand stood in..
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