Mithila Review 12: The Journal of International Science Fiction & Fantasy

Mithila Review publishes excellent science fiction, fantasy, poetry, reviews, excerpts, and articles from award-winning and emerging writers around the world. We seek to publish stories that birth creative thought and positive action. Stories that accurately describe our world, and triumph over fear, mistrust and despair. Stories that guide us and the future. Because the world needs saving, and honestly, nothing works better than positive and powerful stories of belief and wonder.

Issue 12: Table of Contents

FICTION

The Kiss of the Water by Malena Salazar Maciá, translated by Toshiya Kamei
Upshot by Drema Deòraich
The Ghost Teas of Sakurajima by Deborah L. Davitt
Flower Arranging at the End of the Japanese Empire by Dean A. Brink
The Executioner General by Raluca Balasa
The Carnival of Human Nature by Dennis Mombauer
Sonya, Josephine, and the Tragic Re-Invention of the Telephone by I. S. Heynen

POETRY

Social Media Manticore by May Chong
Glimmerglimpse & Electrocologies by Logan Thrasher Collins
Talking in Circles, Lesson Plan & Tethered and Tied by Holly Day
Mud Dauber Wasp Nest by R. J. Keeler
Vestiges of you by Z.M. Quỳnh
The Satyr’s Acolyte by Aber O. Grand
Kirby; Or Everything I Needed to Know About Consumption & Super Mario;
Or, Everything I Needed to Learn About Relationships by Michael T. Smith
The Shuttle Took Off / और यान उड़ गया by Arvind Dubey, translated by Kshama Gautam
Litmus / लिटमस by Shirish Gopal Deshpande, translated by Narendra Petkar

REVIEWS

Contingency Plans for the Apocalypse by S.B. Divya - Reviewed by Gautam Bhatia
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir - Reviewed by Chaitanya Murali

ART/FILM

Our Story: A Conversation with Lorenzo Latrofa & Massimiliano di Lauro by Salik Shah
Cover Art: Macrocheira kaempferi (1911) by Theobald Carreras, Wellcome Collection