The Medley

is a twice-a-year literary journal run by the students of Hansraj College, University of Delhi. It is a repository of stories, poems and essays sent to us from around the world since 2018.

110 IN THE SHADE

There are those that say that, in these searing temperatures, you could fry an egg on the pavement. Another reckons it’s the fault of humankind, how we’ve gone and wrecked the weather. And third just figures one man’s heat is another man’s beach-time. And a fourth merely asks, “Why is there never a consensus?” The subject’s exhausted but then a fifth shows up. The other four gag him.

John Grey

John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in New World Writing, North Dakota Quarterly and Lost Pilots. Latest books, ”Between Two Fires”, “Covert” and “Memory Outside The Head” are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in California Quarterly, Seventh Quarry, La Presa and Doubly Mad.