Issue Spring '25

"Ma mère, mon père et moi" by Alexiane Montpetit-Meilleur

Short Story

The Skating Rink

by Caroline Siebbeles

My friendship with Eileen became really serious the day her mother took her up to our apartment to stay with us on a more or less permanent basis. ...read the full piece

Flash Fiction

Space for Interpretation

by Diana Kussainova

Ever since she was a kid, Saule Sagaidat liked to be first. The first to run up to an apple tree in the park. The first in class, with the highest ...read the full piece

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

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

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

"Before the Deep Sleep" by Mirja Paljakka

Essay

Fish, Water, Lemons, Sea

by Bianca-Olivia Nita

The more I tried to photograph the waves, the clearer it became that waves are not meant to be photographed. They elude the frame. There is no frame ...read the full piece

Poetry

Makoko

by Ibrahim Oladeji Tijani

When the sun lies down, stars and the moon thread their light — woven nets cast above and below us. At dawn, we wear the skin of angels, feet hover ...read the full piece

Poetry

To Be Found on Achill (November only)

by Anke Laufer

the sea-bleached skull of a sheep, perfectly preserved a wealth of tiny striped snail shells from the dunes of Léana, an enamel jug, rusted, in which ...read the full piece

... more Fiction

... more Nonfiction

... more Poetry