issue nine

aug twentyfive

SHAHRIAR SHAAMS
ANJUM NOOR CHOUDHURY (art by REFAT FATEMA ANISA)
ADONIA S.


SAJAL HOSSAIN
DHALY
JAK ALAM


NADIM SILVERMAN

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“A SUITABLE WEIGHT”
“NIGHTMARE OF THE NATIVE”

“MY GRANDMOTHER, THE CAT AND THE ROOM”
“THE BIRD WHO CRIED MAN”
“FEAR NOT WHAT HAUNTED EYES
STALK”
“WHAT REMAINS OF AMINA SHAHID”
“???”

issue 09

aug 2025

For our second anniversary issue, musician and filmmaker NIKHIL RAHMAN created the playlist: “Chhayapraan Bonobeethitole.” For full details, and previous playlists and mixes, featuring some of our favorite artists, past + present + future, click here︎︎︎
“You roam, and the forest looms, wrapping itself around you.”

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Artists included: Arca, Vashti Bunyan, Mica Levi, Caterina Barbieri, Shiho Yabuki, Sassy 009, Vegyn, Björk, sora, Bogdan Raczynski, Marina Herlop, Daft Punk, Anna German, Salami Rose Joe Louis, Aphex Twin, Sadaf, Damiana, Tchaikovsky, & many more...

Small World City is a Dhaka, Bangladesh-based 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
Associate Editor, Zahra Mayeesha


^{︎Photo FICTION: Batman Beyond (Warner Bros., 1999)︎Photo NONFICTION: Painting of Bagala, Unknown artist (c. 1880)︎ILLUSTRATION POETRY: Purgatory, Venessa Kaiser (2025)︎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)}