Sati
Based on the original myth of the goddess Sati and the now outlawed ritual of widow-burning in India, this story follows a bride through the Hindu wedding ceremony and places the flame at the center of a marriage in a culture where it’s expected for the bride to view her husband as God, to erase her desires, to endure silently. She burns until she cannot take it any more. Until she is free.
Publication: Loose Leaves, a Sunflower Station Press online magazine – Issue 3: Rituals and Ceremonies ; The Heduan Review – Issue 1
Rena Patel 