You can probably imagine a husband-not-baby say he’s hungry, and the woman-his-wife Sienna hurry and scurry, her hands and fingers and wrists getting busy with kneads and whisks, mammaries leaking, while the...
What’s Wrong With Sienna?
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mandira pattnaik
Mandira Pattnaik is the author of collections Anatomy Of a Storm-Weathered Quaint Townspeople (2022, Fahmidan Publishing), Girls Who Don't Cry (2023, Alien Buddha Press), and Where We Set Our Easel (forthcoming May 2023, Stanchion Publishing). Mandira's fiction pieces have appeared in The McNeese Review, Penn Review, Quarterly West, and others. She edits for trampset and Vestal Review. More: mandirapattnaik.com
Crafting From Beyond
Here’s something I want to confess: I’ve stopped trying. A curvier-beaked whale dies with a lump of plastic in its belly. Evidence of the levels of marine pollution. I want to write about it. Writing about a subject...