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Woman on the Red Oxide Floor

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Shikhandin
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The Woman on the Red Oxide Floor is a courageous play of the imagination, untethered, and a leap of faith that must first erase known structures to form new patterns. The narrative draws in elements of different genres, creating a surreal landscape that challenges our notions of comfort and discomfort. In this novella, the cosmic and the material, human world flow into each other, at times at cross currents. A baby is born and finds itself gradually alienated from its earlier existence in spirit form, in another cosmos. A mother’s insecurities tunnel a portal through which she glimpses another’s struggles. The violence of the dreaming woman’s emotions creates a fugue that finds its way through the haze to the other side. Motherhood as a leitmotif runs through the narrative, existing at the cusp of the individual and the eternal.

The Woman on the Red Oxide Floor is published by Red River Story, an imprint of Red River, India, publishing limited-edition fiction titles. It’s the third in the series. The novella as a prose form demands precision and conciseness, even as it grapples with expansive ideas. Red River Story seeks to demolish narrative barriers by bringing stories submerged in the rush of those that are popular, more immediately acceptable, and recognizable.

 


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