... are up! And they couldn't be more different, except that they're both very short.
On Big Pulp, there's
Lepers, a dark flash-fiction story set in 1970s Bombay (what Mumbai used to be called). It's my third story for this magazine.
"Eyes averted, Vijay hurries past the group of lepers clustered round a small trash-fire on the sidewalk. Bombay has so many, with horrifying gargoyle faces..." But Vijay's about to be called on it.
And on Theme and Variations, a podcast anthology, I read a light-hearted story called
She Shall Have Music.
"Little Tina is emitting music, bewildering her worried parents Philip and Elaine. What can it possibly be? "
(If you're curious, do listen...)