Mahak Jain

Mahak Jain’s fiction has appeared in Gulf Coast, Bellevue Literary Review, The Journey Prize Stories 28: The Best of Canada’s New Writers, and elsewhere. She also writes children’s books, most recently Bharatanatyam in Ballet Shoes, illustrated by Anu Chouhan.

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Issue 72.1 Fall 2023

Hardik knows the trees by name. He knows which tree is maple and which is oak and which is evergreen and which is dogwood. I know he is right about the maple once I study the leaf because it’s three-pronged and jagged and reminds me of last fall when my third-grade teacher, Ms. Kent, handed […]