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Winner of the MILKWEED AWARD Current Issue Archive Congratulations to Anjana Basu for having her story “The Woman Who Vanished” selected among the 2009 Million Writers Award Congratulations to Dilman Dila for having his short story "Homecoming" selected among the 2008 Million Writers Award Crispin Oduobuk's short story "Maiduguri Road" was selected among the 2007 Million Writers Award Notable Stories of 2006. Anjana Basu's "The Black Tongue" and Mita Ghose's "Grey, White, Yellow" were selected as Notable Stories of 2005 in the 2006 StorySouth Million Writers Award. Anjana Basu's story "The Black Tongue" placed third among the Top 10. Mohammad Nasrullah Khan and Marlene Amero's story "Donkey Man" was selected among the Notable Online Short Stories of 2003 in the storySouth Million Writers Award. The Clarinet “When you threw a birthday party for your son, I played for him, free of charge and your wife cried,” Ivan, the clarinetist, said. “And your father recovered after I played for him, although the doctor said the old man was just about to meet his maker.”
Out
of Africa Joyce Cary seems something of an anomaly if you consider the history of African fiction as written by non-Africans. While his viewpoint of the African community is an outsider’s, he does make an attempt to get inside the African’s skin and is one of the few non-African writers to try to do so sympathetically, albeit self-consciously. Winter Wonderland I
took him for a Trinidadian, so I say, "Pardner, I want to
make a When Spring Comes He flicked on the bathroom light and was greeted by a thick mat of green and blooming vines clinging to and completely obscuring the shower curtain. A large lily pad topped by a tightly-closed white bud floated in the toilet. Gin and Polo The story doesn’t hang on some small character or cultural flaw, but takes in the entire situation, the indigenous culture versus the foreign culture, and holds them both up to an equal flame of scrutiny. No one is innocent, no one is honest, and though some are worse than others only one character escapes the ending with some dignity.
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