Three Questions
After the monsoon, does the bud awaken as a lotus or sink into the earth as lavender?
Did you know that the snap of a suitcase and the slap of a cheek sound the same from the sliver beneath a closed bedroom door?
Does the body choose what it etches into its bones, what it seals within its gut?
Preeti Talwai writes from the California coast, where she is also a research executive in the technology industry. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Typehouse Magazine, and Unbroken, among others, and her fiction is held at U.C. Berkeley's Rare Book Collection. Her chapbook, Chronic is forthcoming from Bottlecap Press.
See more of Preeti's work in 13.3