Debi (Debarati) Mukherjee has survived her two-decade dose of corporate jobs and traded it for a lifelong love of writing. Her short fiction features in a special climate fiction anthology published by The Hemlock Journal. Her work has been published in Usawa Literary Magazine, Kitaab, Mean Pepper Vine, QuillMark, and Remington Review. When she’s not writing, she loves to swim and spend time in nature. You can find her on Instagram: @ladywildflowrr.
Short story by Debi Mukherjee: “Unlike the little girls I see outside temples, draped in their pano bhaju’s stringing garlands of Marigolds, I dare not play with the flowers in our garden. Papa cautions me against the rows of Mogras, Shoe-flowers, Frangipanis and a multitude of others. He says that I must not be lured by a flower’s fragrance.”