Ashim Shanker

Migrations

1 - Don't Forget to Breathe (Feb-2009)
2 - Only the Deplorable (Oct-2013)
3 - Inward and Toward (Nov-2019)

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  Don't Forget to Breathe
  

  • Feb-2009
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  Migrations - 1
  

  "...he could imagine the Dust spiraling in corners, plotting en masse an elaborate offensive upon those who sought seclusion from the outside Universe. The Dust: it was older than Time, bound by its allegiance to the Tangible-to the very Physical Sub...

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  Only the Deplorable
  

  • Oct-2013
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  Migrations - 2
  

  "Was it possible to feel nostalgic about something that had never happened to him, possible for nostalgia to be taken in by the body as a free pathogen to infect the consciousness with stray sentiments? Perhaps, in his dreams, he had traveled b...

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  Sinew of the Social Species
  

  • Mar-2014
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  Meditations on Connections Lost (2003-2014): Poetry, short fiction, and autobiographical writing on transculturation, fragmented identity, and the disintegration of human connection in the midst of a frantic search for individual purpose. Written...

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  Inward and Toward
  

  • Nov-2019
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  Migrations - 3
  

  This naked moment may well be apprehended with greater acuity in retrospect, but how can we know if what we view in hindsight will ever have truly been? The uncertainty of it is frightening-but maybe, at the same time, we need not look upon it as a c...

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  trenches parallax leapfrog
  

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  'trenches parallax leapfrog' is a selection of 3 short fictions first written between 2000 and 2003 (when the author was in his early 20s) and re-edited in 2020 (in his early 40s). the stories are a culmination of an identity driven to its most absur...

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