Arushi Handa

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“A Mouthful of Ashes” by Arushi Handa

Submitted to Contest #38

Kamla lowered her wooden stool onto the bathroom floor, and squatted down, even though her knees ached in protest. Today was one of the bad days. All the joints in her body had seemingly swollen to twice their size overnight. The dull, throbbing ache in her fingers turned to searing pain as she took her clothes out of the steel bucket in front of her. Gritting her teeth and invoking Rama’s name, she rubbed them with a soap bar. In any other part of Delhi, this greasy, yellow bar would be a relic. But in her apartment, where everything includ...

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