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DoublSpeak is bringing to you its 7^th issue. It is a bit overwhelming how authors and artists from around the world responded to the requests and calls for submissions to make this issue alive. We have poems and stories from all around the world – Russia, Iran, Turkey, Ireland, United States of America, Philippines, England and of course India. For the first time we are publishing a one act play in the fiction section. Also the occurrence of digitally created images to compliment a poem as a photo-story is a first of many. We have wonderful collaborative pieces by friends and people who never even met each other. We have two very beautifully written letters to critically analyse two of our previously published pieces. Our authors and artists comprise a very diverse group of scientists, professional and amateur poets, film-makers, recovering alcoholics, corporate professionals, doctors, students and academicians. We hope you will love reading this issue. Please read and share with your friends and family. It is completely free. We encourage you to write to us with your critical and analytical views about the pieces published. We will publish them as letters. As the managing editor of DoubleSpeak, I remain grateful to my friends and the artists who had faith in us. Happy reading!

List of Contributors

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Poetry	Aadrit Banerjee Aleksandra Lekić Vujisić Algo Asare Senorita Babangida B. Shira Charbel Nicolas Chidiebere Enyia Christian Ward Dessy Tsvetkova DS Maolalai Dušan Stojković Eftichia Kapardeli Fabrice Poussin Gerard Sarnat Hale Zare Neirizi Jibendu Narayan Mazumder Joanathan Fletcher Kanica Soni Kimberly Stowe Green Lohran Jay Maid Čorbić Michael Lee Johnson Muhammed Farhaan Pawel Markiewicz Royden Preston Sriparna Mitra
Fiction	Bhumika R Chidiebere Enyia DC Diamondopolous Declan Gerathy Dibyasree Nandy Gary Beck John Mueter Leon Taylor Lohran Jay Pawel Markiewicz Todd Embry
Essay	Hargun Gujral Indranil Banerjee Niño Saavedra Manaog Sambuddha Sanyal
Photography	Satadru Wrik Sen Alexey Pehov Phil Temples
Photo-Stories	Bishal Bashyal Muhammed Munavver
Translation	Priyanka Trehan Fadil Oktay
Collaboration	DS Maolalai and Gui Moraes Koushik Saha and Zai Gulmohar
Letters	Pritha Banerjee Chattopadhyay Ujjaini Roy

DoubleSpeak is a literary magazine which is edited for quality and integrity, and it is absolutely free. Guided strongly by the values of free-expression, academic honesty and equality of all individuals, the magazine aims to maintain a platform where voices from various sources will have a larger audience. We hope that the unadulterated joy of finding new things within and around us, will remain the main focus of our team.

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