he/him
My father managed it on the first attempt. Competent, the family said at the wake, thorough. I agreed with thorough. I have his hairline, his handwriting, the same low pressure at the morning piss.
Ashley Mangtani is a slipstream writer who's never met a rule of reality he didn't want to bend, mostly because straight fiction never let him say what he actually meant. Nominated for Best Short Fictions 26/27, his work appears or is forthcoming in Smokelong Quarterly, Strange Horizons, Litro, Washington Square Review, Boudin, Heavy Feather Review, BULL, Cherry Tree, Thin Skin, HAWKEYE, Mobius, i70 Review, Palisades Review, Third Wednesday, Rock Salt, Neon Dystopia, Apocalypse Confidential, and others. His debut short story collection, Unhappy Endings, will be available in 2027, and he's currently finishing his novella series, Crescendo.
