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Amita Basu

Amita Basu’s fiction appears in 90+ venues including The Penn Review, Bamboo Ridge, Faultline, Jelly Bucket, Phoebe, and Funicular. She’s contributing editor at Fairfield Scribes Micro. Her debut, At Play and Other Stories (Bridge House Press), released in 2025. She’s won the Letter Review Prize and Kelp's Shelter in Place contest, and been shortlisted by the Coppice Prize and contests at Phoebe and Five Minute Lit. She lives in Auroville, works at a climate action thinktank, and blogs at http://amitabasu.com/

Horror on the Mountain

The lights blink off on the mountainsideand the stars blink gently on.City-dwelling, I’d quite forgottenthat nights should be pitchblack. Drowsy in my pillowy bed, I watchthe inn, the mountainside get swathedin dense white radiant cloud. Why don’tI move here for good? The
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