Issue 19, Flight

Winter 2010

Fear of flying wells up suddenly, when people not lacking in imagination and sensitivity realize that they are thirty thousand feet in the air, travelling through clouds at eight hundred miles an hour, and ask ‘What the hell am I doing here?’ 
Mario Vargas Llosa

Someone at the Information Agency thought of calling the phenomena at the earth’s core which disturbed us every night, shiftings: successive shiftings of the continental mass from south to north, which finally left Ushuaia above the 25th parallel, and Caracas above the 50th parallel, at the latitude of Quebec 
Adolfo Bioy Casares

After their father left, the daughters of Clara grew heftier and more silent. Grey streaked their hair even though they were still young women. They were only ever seen at church, or at the market. The villagers sympathized with them. To be rich and unattractive was a difficult thing to bear 
Tishani Doshi