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Thank you you so much Janus Literary - on hiatus for publishing my story The Tantric, born in a Smokelong class taught by terrance. And of course, thank you to SmokeLong Quarterly for my whole writing process, which would not have happened without you. janusliterary.com/2023/03/31/ani…

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Got my first #Submittable acceptance, @Macquinterly written of course, as 100% of my writings are, SmokeLong Quarterly Workshop. But I do want to say this: I completed my first year of writing and everyone in the writing community (maybe just #FlashFiction) are so nice.

If you can say Shut the Fuck up, when your mother says "Log Kya kahunge," That's #Courage #9forNavaratri

The wedding was a #resplended affair, enjoyed by everyone except the bride and her lower caste lover. #9forNavaratri

When her husband left her, she scrubbed off the Sindur and went to work. She had five children to feed, to educate, to nurture, and no time to grieve. #Shakti, #9forNavaratri.

Lily noticed that the lotus buds had bloomed, and she knows she will bloom too. But what then? She cannot hear or talk, would her scent reach the world like this lotus? #9forNavaratri

If only he had #faith in himself. If only he listened when I said everything will be Ok. #9forNavaratri

Two religion, two countries, guns, war, fire, two mothers two dead son. The mothers hug, their only religion #Compassion. #9forNavaratri

The dying sun bathed the world in orange, where the #elephant stood alone, pondering existence. #9forNavaratri

Their #wisdom was oral, lost to time, lost to the age of the internet, yet carried intuitively by a few. #9ForNavaratri

The stars and the planets are in #harmony tonight, yet, something seems to be missing. #9forNavaratri

She stood up to 500 years of opression, and #Victory was her's. #9forNavaratri

Aurora Borealis anibanerjee.com/blog/f/aurora-… via Ani Banerjee ( I am not here often)

A story started in #Smokelong workshop is published today in Five on the Fifth fiveonthefifth.com/vol-9-issue-5-…