Notes From a Pyre, by Amal Singh
MARCH 2023, SHORT STORY, 4300 WORDS Terra – 2198 AD Baba lay slumped on his desk, his pen dangling from his parchment hands. His grey hair lay in knotted clumps over the notebook, his tongue sticking slightly outwards, almost licking the page he was writing on. His last scribble was his own name, Parikshit Mehta, …