Shruti Swamy

Shruti Swamy’s fiction has been included in the 2016 and 2017 editions of The O. Henry Prize Stories, and appears in the Paris Review, the Kenyon Review Online, and elsewhere. Her story collection, Earthly Pleasures, is forthcoming from Algonquin Books. She lives in San Francisco.

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Tender

Shruti Swamy  | 
Issue 68.1 Fall 2019

From the window of their apartment, Will watched Juma downstairs fumble with her keys. The man beside her was looking at the dirty ground. The gate stuck. Then they were upstairs. She hadn’t been crying, but there was the strain of cheerfulness all over her. She unbuttoned her coat. “Will,” she said, “it’s Marcus. You […]