‘The Gravestone’ was first published in the July 2014 issue of The Caravan and was later anthologized in A Clutch of Indian Masterpieces: Extraordinary Short Stories from the 19th Century to the Present (Aleph Book Company, 2014).
‘Psychosis’ was first published in Kashmir Lit in 2013.
‘Country-Capital’ appeared in the Kindle magazine in 2013.
‘The Silent Bullet’ was published as ‘Ameen in Heaven’ in The Byword in its June 2015 issue.
All other stories in this collection have never been published before.