My short-story “Postmortem” is on a short-list of works chosen from those published at World Literature Today over the past ten years. You can vote too! I had written this story originally for NPR’s Three-Minute Fiction. The nurse left work at five o’clock. She had seen the dead woman’s husband sitting, near the entrance, under [...]

Tags: Amitava Kumar, NPR, Postmortem, World Literature Today

My very short short-story is a finalist in the Three-Minute Fiction contest on NPR: The nurse left work at five o’clock. She had seen the dead woman’s husband sitting, near the entrance, under the yellow sign that Doctor Ahmed had hung some months ago. “While You Wait, Meditate.” He was sitting with his arms crossed, [...]

Tags: Amitava Kumar, NPR, Postmortem, Three-Minute Fiction