Introducing The Missing Slate’s first issue back after a three-year sabbatical, with featured talent spanning the spectrum of marginalized creators from the South Asian diaspora.

Editorial
The Road Back
Maryam Piracha
slip mercy through
Eulogy
Yusra Amjad
Operation
Kristin Camitta Zimet
Love Poem’s Compass Dusted With Chickpea Flour
Shadab Zeest Hashmi
Lice in My Head
Rohee Shah
and I was close to you
3/4
Neomi Vira
How I Did Not Overcome
Maham Khan
Nano
Yusra Amjad
1/4 Something Else
Nwa A. Rizvi
3/4 Her
Fatima Ijaz
Next In Line
Zahra Hamdulay
He Ate Three-Fourths
Snehal Amembal
the mind in a silver bowl
Love Poem Resisting the Neon Larvae of Headlines
Shadab Zeest Hashmi
Untitled
Haseeb Sultan
Life Pieces
Ved Murarka
The Mask Maker (a mime performance)
İlker Kılıçer
75
Yusra Amjad
I Have Left the Mind
Afshan Shafi
the sun almost came up tomorrow
Almost
Yusra Amjad
You Are Not Quite There Yet
Neha Dsouza
Aphrodisiac
Ananya Sahoo
five things you can touch
Sugar Crash
Ananya Sahoo
Grounding
Ananya Sahoo
Mending
Kristin Camitta Zimet