@Gems_Chhikara

Writes stories. Words in @forge_litmag, Hobart, Cherry Tree, Carte Blanche, Lost Balloon, @MISTERBULLBULL, and more.

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Joined September 2024
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I have an essay here, For Now, That’s Enough. This one is quite close to me. Thank you, @IseleMagazine ❤️ Link below
Isele Magazine@IseleMagazineAug 30
Our latest quarterly issue, RED, is here! Featuring National Book Awards finalist 'Pemi Aguda, R. Makama, Salwa Emerson, David Emeka, Garima Chhikara, Riah Hopkins & more, Read RED here: iselemagazine.com/red/
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Split Lip Magazine@splitlipthemagOct 15
🍂 Get your favorite fall beverage and cozy up with our new OCTOBER ISSUE 🍂 buff.ly/hJmnbBm Love & gratitude to our contributors 🧡 WORDS: @trent_lewin, Kelly Luce, Jane Hammons, & Thia Bian ART: Yezi Lou PLUS: Cat Ingrid Leeches interviews Eshani Surya
A painting of three brown, misshapen forms resembling vertebrae. They’re animal figurines, knocked to their sides. Flat, hollowed-out butts face the viewer. Highlights gloss their curves and shadows pool beneath them against a yellow-gray background.

ALT A painting of three brown, misshapen forms resembling vertebrae. They’re animal figurines, knocked to their sides. Flat, hollowed-out butts face the viewer. Highlights gloss their curves and shadows pool beneath them against a yellow-gray background.

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This is so exciting! My story “This Is Not How Boys Play” is nominated for Best of the Net! ❤️ Thank you Common Ground Review! 🙏 Link below
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This Is Not How Boys Play - Common Ground Review

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Split Lip Magazine@splitlipthemagSep 27
We ❤️ a story on ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY! Fiction reader @Gems_Chhikara's flash “Only Fair That Way” was published in MoonPark Review. Check out this quiet piece 💕 buff.ly/M8fqUZc
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So exciting to have my story “Only Fair That Way” in @MoonParkReview . Really love this issue.🤍 Link below
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Only Fair That Way

By Garima Chhikara Where were you last night? I wait for him to ask me the question, but he doesn’t. Why would he when I had explicitly told him not to bother with where I’d been, not to suffocate …

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Who needs sleep when there’s a good book?
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The whole issue is such a vibe. You’ll love “24 Hours on Labor and Delivery” if you like medical dramas, and there’s so much good stuff in the rest of the issue too.
Split Lip Magazine@splitlipthemagSep 15
🍂 Let's fall into the cozy season with our new SEPTEMBER ISSUE 🍂 buff.ly/JmXKHQ1 All the love to our Contributors⬇️ WORDS: Sarah Chin, @alicemdashc, Chen Chen, & Lisa K. Harris ART: Joe Karlovec PLUS: @joodthu interviews leena aboutaleb
Cover art for Split Lip Magazine's September 2026 issue by Joe Karlovec  featuring a section of his “Eviction Notice.” Jacquard textile, 5-part installation, 78″ x 104″, 2020.

ALT Cover art for Split Lip Magazine's September 2026 issue by Joe Karlovec  featuring a section of his “Eviction Notice.” Jacquard textile, 5-part installation, 78″ x 104″, 2020.

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Isele Magazine@IseleMagazineSep 13
For Now, That’s Enough | Garima Chhikara iselemagazine.com/2026/08/30…

For Now, That’s Enough | Garima Chhikara

That night, I stood in the dark, tangled in my clothes, fingers trembling against buttons I couldn’t undo. I gave up and fell onto the bed half-dressed. I couldn’t sleep. I kept replaying what I ha…

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Split Lip Magazine@splitlipthemagSep 8
"They say that in the face of death, you think of your loved ones, the regrets, the unfinished ambitions, the faces you disappointed, the chances you let slip. But that didn’t happen to her." Fiction reader @Gems_Chhikara's story is in Vol. 1 Brooklyn 💕 buff.ly/OV4qD3k
The view of clouds out of an airplane window.

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nope@truhtnacSep 7
Issue 11 of More Things out now, my regular round-up of short fiction I have enjoyed (and, some weeks, written). This week featuring stories by Brittany Menjivar, Olive Parker, Garima Chhikara, and David Samuel Levinson. inheavenandearth.com/morethi…
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Doing the annual aging thing.
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- Whereabouts, Jhumpa Lahiri
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Split Lip Magazine@splitlipthemagSep 1
"Even with a sister I sometimes call my mother, I felt suddenly like an orphan." Fiction Reader @Gems_Chhikara's essay FOR NOW, THAT'S ENOUGH is published in Isele Magazine’s issue, Red. We know you'll ❤️ this one: buff.ly/P9egt8k
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ALT A torn paper heart taped back together.

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Isele Magazine@IseleMagazineSep 1
"She says she has the right to want a life of her own. Sometimes I hear the therapist in her voice. Sometimes I hear someone simply growing. And despite the panic it stirs in me, I feel proud of her for standing firm." iselemagazine.com/2026/08/30…

For Now, That’s Enough | Garima Chhikara

That night, I stood in the dark, tangled in my clothes, fingers trembling against buttons I couldn’t undo. I gave up and fell onto the bed half-dressed. I couldn’t sleep. I kept replaying what I ha…

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Wrote this story forever ago, and it’s so nice to finally see it up in @vol1brooklyn. 🩶 Link below.
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Sunday Stories: “Temporary Suspension”

Temporary Suspensionby Garima Chhikara  On her way home, Tanya is thirty thousand feet above the ground, heading toward a place that feels more like a layover than a destination. For now, she hangs…

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For Now, That’s Enough | Garima Chhikara

That night, I stood in the dark, tangled in my clothes, fingers trembling against buttons I couldn’t undo. I gave up and fell onto the bed half-dressed. I couldn’t sleep. I kept replaying what I ha…

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Rakshabandhan has to be my favourite festival. My rakhi people, plus one very important cat 💕
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