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Issue Spring '25

Short Story

The Last Child

by Lars Love Philipson

In loving memory of my father, Henrik Philipson (1953-2025). “We can’t keep it in the house,” the father said. “He’s gone. Let go!” But the mother ...read the full piece

Flash Fiction

Colourless Fridays

by Wera Lou Gmeiner

When they meet first, they share a dash, being red-haired or twenty-one. Next to them, a cement mixer, grazing like a cow. And when he sees her, he ...read the full piece

"Self Portrait" by Natanjah Driscoll Harvey

Short Story

Nooh

by Nazia Kamali

The playground, with its decrypt walls and dry, yellow grass, seems smaller than it did when I was younger. The slanting rays of the late afternoon ...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

Essay

Radio Baltica

by Olga Zilberbourg

To listen to the songs that are mentioned in this text, tune in to the Spotify playlist that the author created for you. Where does your motherland ...read the full piece

Essay

Anecdotes and Pending Hugs

by Selene Lacayo

You asked someone to find me online and let me know your mom was gravely ill, guessing that I would like to be there for her. When I reached out ...read the full piece

"Resplendor Profundo y Desconocido" by Zino Haro

Poetry

Unanswered Prayers

by Jesimiel Williams

I cannot speak her language, my mother, Yet it calls to me, distorted to my hearing. I answer with a borrowed tongue, born of subservience, Patched ...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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Issue Spring '25

In Conversation

Thick Descriptions: Articulating Human Contestation of the Crisis — In-Conversation with Author Ranjana Padhi

Leaps of Passion and Perseverance — A Review of Juhea Kim’s “City of Night Birds”

The Body as Our Universal Mother Tongue — A Conversation with Mimi Kunz

The Role of Language and Postcolonial Literature in Shaping Identity — A Personal Essay

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