Celebrating the International Anthology - 'An Iron Fist In A Velvet Glove'

Editor's note on An Iron Fist In A Velvet Glove: This is an international Anthology of 32 Short Stories of 27 contributors from UK, USA, Singapore, India, Philippines and Myanmar. A global volume in its truest sense! While proofreading the book in April, reading them all together in sequence, I felt an excitement and a sense of fulfillment. Except one or two, most of them are pre published pieces. The call for submission was for published works and that's why I could also contribute. I rejected submissions but only a few. The number of submissions exceeded my expectations within a short time, so there was no promo/ad needed like the previous Anthology (Dancing Gold Flecks with 27 unpublished short stories from 18 contributors) consisted of unpublished short stories. Both have been proudly published by zero degree publishers.
Content
1. The Toddy Shop by Lovelace Cook
2. An iron fist in a velvet glove by Natasha Sharma
3. Effigy of a Princess by Bowie Rowan
4. Words Left Unspoken by Sangeetha Vallat
5. Always Rememba by A.D.Moreau
6. River Bank by P.Muralidharan
7. The Fellowship of the Stone by Rham Dhel
8. Punkah Wallah by Jayanthi Sankar
9. One Hundred Fifty - Nine words by Monica Lindo
10. The Swan Song by Monica Singh
11. Under The Bright Sunlight by San Lin Tun
12. Asphodel is for regret by Lalitha Ramanathan
13. Arresting Samantha by A.D.Moreau
14. The Salute by Sredhanea Ramkrishnan
15. Shining Light by Abagail Summers
16. They Throw Rocks by Shahnaz Ahmed
17. Thambi’s canteen by Vidya Murlidhar
18. The Stove by Era.Murukan
19. My Not So Favourite Pupil by Surabhi Kaushik
20. Exit Wound by Rebecca Wilson Jones
21. Gulabrai by Salini Vineeth
22. Did Churchill know? by Jayanthi Sankar
23. Clair De Lune by Abagail Summers
24. Photophobia by Khushboo Shah
25. Crimson tears by Supriya Bansal
26. Matumaini by Chandra Sundeep
27. if of it all by Shravya L Narasimhan
28. Estuary by P.Muralidharan
29. Deliria by Sangeetha Kamath
30. Will to live by Natasha Sharma
31. The never-ending Ordeal by Narayani V Manapadam
32. Amala by Sinduja Rengarajan