Short Fiction
Stories published in magazines, anthologies, and commissioned work. A partial list - I’ll update this as I remember things I’ve forgotten.
In magazines, journals, and commissioned work
| Story | Publication | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Limits of My Language | Grimdark Magazine, issue #38 | 2024 | Link |
| Worrying over Potatoes | Google Research / Wordcraft Writers Workshop | 2022 | Link |
| The Only Good Doctors | GoverningHealthFutures (The Lancet × Financial Times) | 2021 | Link |
| Work Ethics | Wired | 2020 | Link |
| The State Machine | Slate / Future Tense (ASU) | 2020 | Link |
| The Slow Sad Suicide of Rohan Wijeratne | Self-published; reprinted in Grimdark issue #44 | 2017 | Link |
In anthologies
| Story | Anthology | Publisher | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The State Machine | The Big Book of Cyberpunk | Vintage / Penguin Random House | 2023 | - |
| The Art of the Possible | Kalicalypse: Subcontinental Science Fiction | Future Fiction | 2022 | Link |
| Confessor | The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction, Vol. 2 | Hachette India | 2021 | Link |
| A Little Bit of Kali | The Expanding Universe 6; reprinted Escape Pod #792 | - | 2019 | Escape Pod link |
| Beatnik | Chronicle Worlds: Crime and Punishment | - | 2019 | Link |
| Ozymandias | Horizons Beyond | - | 2019 | - |
| The Tragedy of John Metcalf | Parallel Worlds: the Heroes Within | - | 2019 | Link |
| Messenger (with R.R. Virdi) | The Expanding Universe 5 | - | 2018 | - |
| The Writing Contest | Future Visions | - | 2018 | - |
| Deep Ocean Blues | 2054 | - | 2018 | - |
| Claws and Effect | Hellcats Anthology | - | 2018 | Link |
| Dreadnought | The Expanding Universe 3 | - | 2017 | - |
Messenger was nominated for the Nebula Award.
Collections
- The Slow Sad Suicide of Rohan Wijeratne (Perera Hussein, 2024) - a print collection gathering many of the stories above.
Online and freely readable
Stories available to read right now, no paywall:
- Work Ethics - Wired, 2020
- The State Machine - Slate / Future Tense, 2020
- A Little Bit of Kali - Escape Pod #792, audio narrated by Kaushik Narasimhan
- Worrying over Potatoes - Google Research Wordcraft, 2022
- The Only Good Doctors - Lancet × Financial Times, 2021
A note on finding things
Short fiction has a habit of going out of print or disappearing behind paywalls. If you’re looking for a specific story and can’t find it, get in touch - I may have a copy I can share for personal reading.