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When one looks in the box, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the cat.

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Krishna is quite unsettled when he bumps into a woman’s corpse during his morning bath in Kolkata’s Hooghly River, yet declines to do anything about it—after all, why should he take responsibility for a stranger? But when the dead start coming back to life en masse, he rethinks his position and the debate around how to treat these newly risen corpses gets a lot more complicated.

In this story from Indrapramit Das—originally published in February 2016—a journalist strives to understand Krishna’s actions and what they say about the rest of society and how we treat our dead.

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Indrapramit Das

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Indrapramit Das (aka Indra Das) is a writer from Kolkata, India. His debut novel The Devourers (Penguin Books India) was nominated for the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize in India, and is slated for a summer 2016 release in North America from Ballantine Del Rey. His short fiction has appeared in a variety of publications and anthologies, including Clarkesworld, Asimov’s and The Year’s Best Science Fiction. He is a 2012 Octavia E. Butler Scholar, and a grateful graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop. For more visit his website www.indradas.com or follow him on Twitter @IndrapramitDas. Author photo by Rajib Saha.
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