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by Lorenzo Conti

Nonno Gino finds a humming sphere under a portico and decides it's a wedding gift. It isn't. When people shout, it lifts chairs off the floor, and this is Bologna, so everyone shouts. By Saturday morning it's wanted by two broke con men, a wedding at war, a cop fourteen days from retirement and a suspiciously polite hiker from Bolzano.

by Namrita Thakur

In 1910 Satnaam Das paints PURE GHEE ONLY over his sweet shop in Dehradun, and means it. His family keeps the sign for 110 years. Every generation has a good reason for one small shortcut, and nobody can say which year the sign stopped being true.

by Shantanu Shukla

Gopina makes the tea at a four-person newspaper, unpaid. Komila Modi owns the tile factory and, more or less, the town. One day Komila will be her mother-in-law. First, Gopina has to make her hear the name of a boy the factory says was never there.

by Aruna Gupta

Kabir Gill is seven, new to Moose Jaw, and refuses to believe in anything he can't see: the attendance list, the calendar, the bank that owns most of the house. Every grown-up who tries to set him straight ends up telling the truth instead.

by Kyra Dhillon

Kanchi breaks things; Puram plans them. Their last job, in a Gurgaon tower, gets them a bronze dial that stops every clock in the room and drops them in India in 3102 BCE, weeks before an age ends. The vaults they'll rob in 2026 haven't been built yet. It turns out they build them.

by Ishan Sharma

Della has spent three months pretending to love nature to get one recommendation letter. Now she has to lead her class round the zoo in a white uniform while her rival films every second, and she is scared of everything that lives there.