Andy Fenwick New York, USA Where is my mother now, her hair thinned to spider legs by New Jersey air spiked with cyanide and methane? She carries cattails torched with Bics, their blue flames repelling mosquitoes and their bites, tiny pictures of malaria, like slides of my relatives, drunk on our garage carpet thick with…
Author: Vishwanath Bite
Slow Dancing
Hagski’s Domain
Chapter One of Six Weeks to Yehidah Melissa Studdard Texas, USA The thing you would notice most was the rain, how the rain fell and fell and never seemed to stop. The sky was constantly swollen with it, then birthing it, swollen, then birthing again, and the hills, like greedy babies, suckled up all that…
The Driver
Trailing Sky Six Feathers: Her Story Excerpt from Chapter One
Ian Prattis Ontario, Canada At the cave they gathered most of their sparse belongings and bundled it onto frames strapped to strong and willing backs. They decided to leave equipment and supplies in the cave for anyone who may seek sanctuary there. Before they left, Long Willow and her two companions offered prayers and thanksgiving…
In This Sign
Riding
Christina Murphy West Virginia USA I. Steamboat on the ocean, misfit to time. Love me like no other, baby, there is no rhyme. Believe me, I know our anachronistic past, and I understand how love can drop you from the passenger list just like that. All aboard before the steam runs out, the pressure fades,…
Futuristic Dystopias as Feminist Protest in Angela Carter’s fiction
Dr. Rajaram Sitaram Zirange Head, Postgraduate Department of English, Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University Yashwantrao Mohite College, Pune – 38 (India). Angela Carter (1940-1992) began her writing career as a journalist. In her very first novel, Shadow Dance she challenges the notion of sexuality. Though she wrote in the tradition of Realism, her characters are violent…
SALMAN RUSHDIE AS A CHILDREN’S WRITER: READING HAROUN AND THE SEA OF STORIES (1990) AND LUKA AND THE FIRE OF LIFE (2010)
VED MITRA SHUKLA Assistant Professor Department of English Rajdhani College, University of Delhi New Delhi – 15 (INDIA) Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie borne in India in 1947 is an English Booker Prize-winner author. With the publication of Haroun and the Sea of Stories in 1990, he took his way in the realm of children’s literature….
Computer Mediated Communication: The Use of CMC to Promote Learners’ Communicative Competence
Vahid Norouzi Larsari M.A Islamic Azad University , Takestan , branch , Iran V. Nowrozi@gmail.com Abstract Moving from the ‘focus on form’ teaching approach such as Grammar Translation and Audiolingualism, recently more language teachers have noticed the failure of form focusing approach in developing learners’ communicative ability in real-life situations and shifted to adopt the…