Mithila Review 12

Mithila Review publishes excellent science fiction, fantasy, poetry, reviews, excerpts, and articles from award-winning and emerging writers around the world. 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