Ma keeps Nabh home again because he’s still fatigued, and she says he has such heavy bags under his eyes he could go for a month-long trip to India. No fever, though. He’s well enough to be bored. And …...
Sick Day
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Kalpita Pathak
Kalpita Pathak is an autistic, disabled, queer Indian-American writer. A former Michener fellow, her poetry has been published in several magazines, including Autumn Sky Daily, San Pedro River Review, Unbroken, and South Dakota Review (2025). Her fiction has been shortlisted for the SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction and published in Wigleaf and The Massachusetts Review.