Ashley Gyawali

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Ashley Gyawali is a second-year student majoring in Foreign Affairs, and intending to minor in South Asian studies. When not writing for Iris, she is involved in George Washington University’s REAL program, a writer for the Jefferson Independent Journal, and involved in clubs. In her free time, she likes to call herself a historian; she can be spotted reading a historical fiction novel, watching Disney, and writing fanfiction. 

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Adiśati (Order)

Being the wife of a demon who so easily lends his body like a whore is not as simple as drinking freshwater.

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All The Daughters Of My Father’s House

She was a beauty, but Agnes did not like her.  

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Passport Sis (Nepali-American Version)

Funnily, the term “passport bro” was coined in a documentary about Black American men traveling abroad...

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Resham Firiri

 “She’ll be such an obedient girl,” his mother sighed dreamily.

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Lines and Underdogs

An immortal dog shook her tail and bathed in an Indian Country river when the great-grandson of the Town Destroyer ambushed Jumonville Glen.

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Factory Flowers

The town is swallowed by war, but you were never concerned about that, draped in the white sari  of violent widowhood.

 

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