by Arti Jain | Jul 11, 2025 | Print and online
When it was time, I stepped into the bath full of spider webs. Some quivered with rage. Some crackled like silence does, like pomegranate seeds do. I crusted over their collective mutiny of light, shimmer, shade, and thought to myself—it’s time to rest my maudlin...
by Arti Jain | May 7, 2025 | Creative Non-Fiction
by Author : Arti Jain https://arti-jain.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/8-Nov-2024-at-12_57_23 pm.mp3 A new song sung; nay, belted out by a familiar female voice floods the car as Idrive to the library one morning— Main thaare paon ki jutti na Ke jad jee kare per li...
by Arti Jain | Sep 26, 2024 | Creative Non-Fiction
“Tsk…later, eat these first.” Daddy points to piping hot samosas. ‘Got them specially for you.’ It’s been thirty years. He doesn’t know I’ve turned gluten free. I ask again. “We must’ve given them to the maids or something…it’s been thirty years.” “Not even one?”...
by Arti Jain | Sep 26, 2024 | Fiction
Published in the Porch Litmag One Wednesday in August, I decide to haiku and eulogize my mother. Not at the same time, of course. I could never fit a haiku around my Ma. 17 syllables would be far too many for her euphony. Ghrrrrrrr ghrrrrrrrr ghrrrrrrr was the only...
by Arti Jain | Sep 26, 2024 | Print and online
Is this love? Is mossy green the right shade for Earth? Why doesn’t love last? Why doesn’t blood? Why does this longing? How to paint gnawing? Can’t figure out and yet I paint brokenness, roots—why? Where did I read about Shiva’s third eye? Did they say it symbolizes...
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