Issue Spring '25

Flash Fiction

Dazed

by Christian Lesmes

“What does this Eel eat?” I asked, watching it swim around a white bucket. “Bananas,” said the owner of the processing plant. The long, shiny body ...read the full piece

"Only Our Shadow Knows" by Jack Bordnick

Short Story

You and My Memory Keeper

by Shrutidhora P Mohor

I set him weekly tasks, tasks that he must finish to my satisfaction. Sometimes that means noting the details of date and time of faded pictures. At ...read the full piece

"Pompeii Archaeological Park" by Joykrit Mitra

Short Story

The Ones Left Behind

by Mariana Serapicos

I watched it as it gasped for air, flopping around in the very last seconds of its life. As a kid, I desperately wanted a pet. I’d wanted a dog or a ...read the full piece

Flash Nonfiction

The Woman on the Bench

by Ludivine Massin

I was walking down Abovyan Street and my daughter was screaming; as she had been down Teryan Street and all the streets before that, and she hadn’t ...read the full piece

Essay

Glory

by Tanya Ng Cheong

The speaker played all the songs listed for Song Of The Year, covering up the sizzling sound of the BBQ. It reached the “Local” category, and among ...read the full piece

Flash Nonfiction

Where No One Could Find You

by Lara Della Gaspera

It always struck me as unusual, the way your childhood photos were displayed in a bathroom — a liminal space, neither public nor private, down the ...read the full piece

Poetry

Knot

by Madina Tuhbatullina

I am the kind above the plaster churches. We happen to share this sentence. I pretend every sound is a letter, cluster your freckles and thread the ...read the full piece

"The Shape of Vital Perception" by Duane Toops

Poetry

Small Wishes

by Nawel Abdallah

If only she could love more as if the war had never broken her heart. If only she could read May Ziadeh and Ghassan Kanafani for hours under the sun, ...read the full piece

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