DNA-Out of Print Short Fiction July 2014: The Longlist

The DNA-Out of Print Short Fiction Feature, 2014

The Longlist

We had a tremendous variety of submissions to the DNA-Out of Print Short Fiction Contest. Rather unfortunately, a few were sent as attachments and could not be read and some violated the word count restrictions beyond our rather flexible filters. But of the ones we did read, 30 made the longlist. They are listed in order of submission date.

Thank you authors for your strong thoughtful writing. Identifying the shortlist is not going to be easy.

Prashila Naik	Naach Basanti Naach
Sudha Mathew	Left or Right?
Tanuj Solanki	The Sad Unknowability of Dilip Singh
Kulpreet Yadav	Long Way from Home
Nabina Das	Malena Learns the Spices
Aqueous Aura	Cat Smoking
Alex Sobel	Facts of the Heart
Yamini Vijendran	The First Rain
Boby Mohan	The Velvet Glove
Monika Pant	Birdwatcher
Gaurav Deka	The Last Sin
K Sahasranaman	The Curious Case of the Missing Postbox
Shruthi Rao	The Awakening
Anuraag Baruah	The Rainman
Manoshij Banerjee	My Talisman
Sumana Khan	The Triumvirate
Fehmida Zakeer	Babies in the Park
Sanchari B	The Aftereffects of a Nightmare
Tejaswini Apte Rahm	One Hour, Nine Hours Ago
Ajay Patri	Shifting Lives
Rachna Kiri	Mishti Doi
Garima Goel	Petroleum Venus
Sudha Nair	Prying Eyes
Nilanjan Coomar	No Picture
Sreejith Sukumaran	Speechless
Mohit Parikh	A Touch Deep Down
Kennith Rosario	Land Beyond the Growing Hill
Sayantan Sunny Ghosh	Jedi
Deepak Unnikrishnan	The Old Woman Who Could Fly
Hema Raman	All Alone Together