issue eight

may twentyfive

FEBY IDRUS 
CHRISTINE NICOLA MARY PAUL
SHANE PILLAY

YOSHA KHURANA (art by ZAREEN TASNIM BUSHRA)
ROLANDO PAEZ
ALIEX VILES (art by NIL)
???

“PULANG”
“SCARLET WOMAN”
“THE MERMAID OF BRIGHTON BEACH”
“SEE THROUGH”

“A FLOWER FOR NOLA”
“THE CITY OF RATS”
“???”

issue 08

may 2025

For Issue 08, poet TONIMA ZAMAN ZEBA (“Death in the Living Room”) and Small World City deputy editor SHEHRIN HOSSAIN created the playlists: “mellow as the month of may” and “the splintering hour.” For previous playlists and mixes, featuring some of our favorite artists, past + present + future, click here︎︎︎

Small World City is a Dhaka, Bangladesh-based online quarterly literary magazine looking for speculative stories—in the very different forms they take // We publish the strange, the irreverent, the niche... the stories that eschew reality // For more information︎︎︎

Editor, Mehrul Bari S. Chowdhury
Deputy Editor, Shehrin Hossain
Comms Director, Farhia Tabassum
Creative Cons, Zareen Tasnim Bushra

First Reader, Asmita Mehefin


^{︎Photo FICTION: Monkey2, KJ Hannah Greenberg (2024)︎Photo NONFICTION: 貞子3D (Kadakawa Pictures, 2012)︎Photo RADIO SWC: বিজ্ঞানী সফদর আলীর মহা মহা আবিষ্কার, Unknown Cover Artist (1996)︎Video SMALL WORLD TV: 殭屍先生 (Golden Harvest, 1985)︎The Crow (Paramount, 1994)︎श्री ४२० (R.K. Films, 1955)︎Dream Demon (Palace Pictures, 1988)︎তিতাস একটি নদীর নাম (Angel Films. 1973)︎সুবর্ণরেখা (J.J. Films, 1965)︎東方三俠 (Paka Hill Productions, 1993)}