Joao Roque Literary Journal

By Rohan Govenkar

Issue no. 3

I knew people with such names lived in other vaddos, and it was only our 'Durgawadi' that was full of names like Hanumant, Vaikunth, Narayan ...

By Prashila Naik

Issue no. 3

Joel looked away, embarrassed and yet excited. He had heard stories of how so many boys like him just got 'lucky' with women like these.

Translated by Paul Melo e Castro

Issue no. 3

Manuelinho Fernandes had a head for figures right from birth, in Mapuçá. With great patience, he would tot up and check through piles of sums as tall as the Sé in Velha Goa ...

By Jayanti Naik

Issue no. 2

Her beautiful body in its full flush of youth would brush against my own young body. a hundred times a day, but that never was a turn-on for me. The thought of marrying her never crossed my mind.

By Roanna Gonsalves

Issue no. 2

When the spitters had settled down as the train began to move, I felt conflicting currents within me. I was conscious of my power as a young exotic-looking woman ...

By Jessica Faleiro

Issue no. 2

Yes, I've met a lady with a carbon footprint reducing business, an IT consultant who moonlights as a tarot card reader, an artist, a professional storyteller ...