Issue Fall '24

"Echoes of Renewal in Rust" by April Lannigan

Short Story

How to Be a Man

by Delight Ejiaka

The banner for the Enyimba F.C. vs. Osun United match swayed with the wind as Obiora and Ekene approached the Thomas Balogun Stadium. Young boys sold ...read the full piece

Short Story

The Silent World of Jordi Soto

by Sahil Mehta

1. Squeal. Shriek. Skid, skid. The cars stop dramatically in front of Chez Henri. An undulating soundtrack of wailing sirens prevails over the ...read the full piece

"Snow Dreams. Young Woman." by Irina Novikova

Flash Fiction

My Father at the Border between Hades and La Merica

by Edvige Giunta

I met my father, diagnosed with a malattia innominata , at the border between Hades and La Merica. On his back he carried a burlap sack of half-told ...read the full piece

Essay

my mother tongue

by Asya Akimzhanova

to Apasha ... I needed a different language: a language that was a place of affection and reflection. — Antonio Tabucchi on Friday I had my first ...read the full piece

Essay

Patient Notes

by Bella Majam

My first brush with psychiatric hospitalization, I often joke, was a prelude to my sweet sixteenth. There are a few things you can only learn once ...read the full piece

"Harmony's Intersection" by Leila Zolfalipour

Flash Nonfiction

A Mother’s Tongue Across Linguistic Worlds

by Magdalena Olszanowski

My son and I dip our summer legs in the shallow end of Parc Jarry's swimming pool. Impatient feet speed up around us, ready to jump into the water. ...read the full piece

"Second-Hand Revolutions" by Elzbieta Zdunek

Poetry

rejection #22

by Dianna Vega

did you ever hear of a girlmaker? they pour glass in molds of sugar, skin, and skull. they measure your outline with a fatal lack of precision, as ...read the full piece

Poetry

to conjure / conjure away

by Susanne Sophie Schmalwieser

we’ve been speaking since january or so and now the trees are growing flowers mostly pinks and whites i tell you how the hills in Morocco rest soft ...read the full piece

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