#BITOCREADS2025 Feb 1, 2025 The Buru Quartet by Pramoedya Ananta Toer, translated by Max Lane 1. This Earth of Mankind 2. Child of all Nations 3. Footsteps 4. House of Glass.

#BITOCREADS2025 Jan 30, 2025 A Shiny New Toy by Anil Yadav, translated by Vaibhav Sharma bombaylitmag.com/issue59-vaib...

#BITOCREADS2025 Jan 28, 2025 On the Wildness of Children by Carol Black carolblack.org/on-the-wildn...

#BITOCREADS2025 Jan 26, 2025 Mercy by Rudy Fransisco getlitanthology.org/poemdetail/3...

#a_short_story_per_day #BestOf2024 So, as the countdown for the last three days before we enter the mighty 2025 begins, the BiToC admins are sharing the stories they most enjoyed curating for this year. My - Anushree KS - first will be -

Sharing the recommendations for the 6th prompt of #TheBigFatAntiOppressionReadingChallenge2025 Prompt #6 - Generation gaps and intergenerational trauma Books that explore the tensions between generations - to break them apart, or bridge them.

Sharing recommendations for the 5th prompt of #TheBigFatAntiOppressionReadingChallenge2025 Prompt #5 Learning difficulties due to a cognitive, learning or other disorder

Sharing recommendations for the 4th prompt of #TheBigFatAntiOppressionReadingChallenge2025 Prompt #4 - a love story

Sharing recommendations for the 3rd prompt of #TheBigFatAntiOppressionReadingChallenge2025 Prompt #3 - Graphic novels from marginalised voices in India

Sharing recommendations for: Prompt #2 - Climate Change/Environmental Justice "Here we are looking for the impact on people - whether that's vulnerable populations, indigenous peoples, farmers, small communities, urban ""elite"""

Starting today, we shall share the individual prompts and their recommendations. This will help you prep by the end of the year and begin the challenge starting next year.

The Big Fat Anti-Oppression Reading Challenge 2025 2024 has been the year that we acknowledged that we’re in hell and our handbasket is on fire. People across the world are under threat, and all the protest in the world seems to us to have resulted only small responses.

#a_short_story_per_day December 7, 2024 Tramsa, Tromsa, Tramso by Monica Batet, translated from Catalan by Marialena Carr and Julia Sanches www.thecommononline.org/tramsa-troms... @marialenacarr.bsky.social @juliasanches.bsky.social

#a_short_story_per_day December 6, 2024 Mrs. Tsubaki by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi splitlipthemag.com/fiction/0524... Easily one of my fav stories this year.

#a_short_story_per_day December 5, 2024 Sunny Days by Emily Rinkema < @emilyrinkema.bsky.social > www.bullshitlit.com/blog/erinkema A short fiction concerning kids, parents and animals.

#a_short_story_per_day December 4, 2024 The Dark House retold by Rahman Murad, translated from Balochi by Fazal Baloch borderlessjournal.com/2021/02/16/t...

#a_short_story_per_day December 3, 2024 Missing Out by Leila Aboulela granta.com/missing-out/ A tale of migration, seclusion, identity, religion, relationships, and missing out.

#a_short_story_per_day December 2, 2024 Catalina Loango by Bernardino Pérez Miranda, translated from Palenquero by Armin Schwegler

#a_short_story_per_day December 1, 2024 The Sycamore and the Sybil by Alix E. Harrow www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

#a_short_story_per_day November 16, 2024 The Vale Cemetery by Ahana Banerji theshortstory.co.uk/the-vale-cem...

#a_short_story_per_day November 15, 2024 I'm a Māori by Airana Ngarewa newsroom.co.nz/2024/09/07/s...

#a_short_story_per_day November 14, 2024 My Father, the Morning Star by Rita Chang-Eppig midnightbreakfast.com/my-father-th...

#a_short_story_per_day November 13, 2024 It was the Pishtaco by Juan Carlos Cortázar, translated by Jennifer Shyue www.guernicamag.com/it-was-the-p...

#a_short_story_per_day November 12, 2024 The Fields of 1936 by Helena María Viramontes www.thecommononline.org/the-fields-o...

#a_short_story_per_day November 11, 2024 Remembrance by Oyinkansola Sofela www.smokelong.com/stories/reme... Tightly packed gut punch, story about white man's slaves and death's escapes.

#a_short_story_per_day November 10, 2024 The Atonement of Uli Baal by Zeeva Bukai www.carvezine.com/story/summer... TW - child sexual abuse, war

#a_short_story_per_day October 19, 2024 still lives by Valentina Rìos Romero www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/585...

#a_short_story_per_day October 18, 2024 Socratic Wig by Sara Kachelman bwr.ua.edu/46-2-feature...

#a_short_story_per_day October 17, 2024 Floating Around by Maria Kuznetsova www.threepennyreview.com/floating-aro...

#a_short_story_per_day October 16, 2024 The Sound of Children Screaming by Rachel K. Jones www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/the-... Tw - school gun violence

#a_short_story_per_day October 15, 2024 Psychosis by Matt Dymerski www.creepypasta.com/psychosis/ A paranoid man suffers from psychosis triggered by loneliness. But does he?

#a_short_story_per_day October 14, 2024 Snail Diaries by Soňa Uriková, translated from Slovak by Magdalena Mulleck wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

#a_short_story_per_day October 13, 2024 I Am An Eight Year Old Orpheus by Domenico Starnone, translated from Italian by Oonagh Stransky electricliterature.com/the-mortal-a...

#a_short_story_per_day September 28, 2024 Lua by Uyen Phuong Dong haydensferryreview.com/uyen-phuong-... A Vietnamese woman tells the story of migration and the weight of memories.

#a_short_story_per_day September 27, 2024 Submechanopho or the Feminine Urge to be an Airplane on the Lakebed by Eli Kourtis splitlipthemag.com/fiction/1122...

#a_short_story_per_day September 26, 2024 The Bimbo Bandit by Kaleigh Norgord writeordiemag.com/fiction/the-...

#a_short_story_per_day September 25, 2024 To Labor for the Hive by Jamie Liu orionmagazine.org/article/to-l...

#a_short_story_per_day September 24, 2024 Kiêu by Khuê Pham, translated from Vietnamese by Daryl Lindsey and Charles Hawley wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

#a_short_story_per_day September 23, 2024 Notes on What a Tree Might be by Christina Politano www.thedodgemag.com/cristinapoli... In a distant future, when trees don't exist, a teacher talks about what a tree means.

#a_short_story_per_day September 22, 2024 Invitation by Cho Yeeun, translated from Korean by Giulia Ratti theoffingmag.com/refusal/invi...

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#a_short_story_per_day September 7, 2024 Funeral for a Demon by Srividya Tadepalli bombaylitmag.com/srividya-tad... In a small village, in this Deodar Prize winning story, a demon has died. But the legend continues.

#a_short_story_per_day September 6, 2024 Terrarium / Tarred Handloom by Ada Pelonia online.fliphtml5.com/ndtwa/oqnb/#... TW - parental abuse Micro prose about a relationship supposed to nurture, turning sour in tiny ways.

#a_short_story_per_day September 5, 2024 Who are you when no one is watching by Abbas Bagasrawala www.usawa.in/issue-7/fict... TW - infidelity

#a_short_story_per_day September 4, 2024 Dichosofui by Alexandra Lytton Regalado agnionline.bu.edu/fiction/dich...

#a_short_story_per_day September 3, 2024 Like Saline And Sugar by Suzanne Grove writeordiemag.com/fiction/like...

#a_short_story_per_day September 2, 2024 Dumb Animals by Alastair Wong electricliterature.com/dumb-animals... TW - animal killing, death of a parent, complex parental relationships.

#a_short_story_per_day September 1, 2024 Life on Another Planet by Kelle Groom www.tupeloquarterly.com/prose/kelle-... Tw - drug abuse

#a_short_story_per_day August 17, 2024 Zapata Foots The Bill by Fernando A. Flores porterhousereview.org/articles/zap...

#a_short_story_per_day August 16, 2024 The God I Cannot See by Mrityunjay Mohan haydensferryreview.com/mrityunjay-m...