Subham Rai | Author, editor, caffeine-addict, wannabe ninja

After a day off (we all need them), we’re back with Cohesion Press’ Author Spotlight! Today, we’re moving away from the Americas and heading across the Northern Hemisphere to India, where Subham Rai resides. I’m not sure if he knows we’re coming, but that’s never stopped us before!

Now that we’re parked on Subham’s door, it’s his turn to do the talking thing. Take it away, Subham!

Subham Rai is a writer from Kolkata, India, whose work spans horror, romance, and literary fiction. His work has appeared in Strange Horizons, Macramé Literary Journal, SNAFU editions from Cohesion Press, Zoetic Press, Bindweed Magazine, Graveside Press, Horror Tree, and Consequence Forum, with forthcoming publications in other presses and magazines.

For this year’s edition of SNAFU: Level Up, Subham ventured deep into the Australian bush with his tale: BLOOD FOR XP: In the Australian outback, a military patrol is thrust into a brutal game system where killing mutated beasts grants XP and deadly powers, forcing them to farm blood for survival or face permanent death.

You can find Subham on Insta, and on X, and Bluesky, Facebook, and here’s his Linktree, as well as his Amazon Author page.

And this is the last of Cohesion Press’ Author Spotlights with Subham Rai! And yes, you’re right, the math doesn’t quite math. This is Author Spotlight #14, and we have eighteen authors in SNAFU: Contagion – you just need to roll with it. Please and thank you! 😊

Subham absolutely killed with his tale. Not literally. That’s illegal despite alibis. I’m pretty sure. I mean, there are dead people in his story. But you expect that. This is SNAFU. And Subham ran with that, guns blazing.

So, I’ll now hand you over to him to give a far more coherent introduction than I’ve done…

Subham Rai is an emerging writer based in Kolkata, India. His short stories have been published in notable outlets, including Strange Horizons, Macrame Literary Journal, Cohesion Press’s SNAFU: Contagion, and Zoetic Press’s Mosscap’s Ledger, with additional works featured in Graveside Press’s Kosmos Obscura. Forthcoming publications include ‘Bread Over the Line’ in Consequence Forum, ‘The Salem Shadow’ in Graveside Press’s Witchcraft Anthology, ‘The Holly Locket Curse’ in Bindweed Magazine, and ‘Margaret Hollow’ in Vellum Mortis.

As you can guess, we got quite the gruesome tale from Subham for SNAFU: Contagion – OUTPOST ZERO: In a remote Arctic outpost, a nightmare outbreak threatens the mainland.

You can find Subham on Bluesky, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Threads, and Facebook2 (I added the ‘2’, again, roll with it!).

Subham is absolutely a writer to watch.