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Shruti Swamy

Shruti Swamy lives and writes in San Francisco’s Tenderloin. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from O. Henry Prize Stories 2016, AGNI, Boston Review, and elsewhere. She is a Kundiman fiction fellow, and is at work on a novel set in Bombay in the mythic 1970s.

Summer 2016

The Laughter Artist

By Shruti Swamy

Drunk. Split almost open. And I found myself laughing at the window at the violence outside, a man yelling at a woman who walked quickly away from him, crossing through […]