Blood and Sand – By Julian Gallo

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    They are immediately met with the smell of death — pungent, acrid, blood, decay, entrails. Bloodstains streak across the concrete floor that lead to...

Hsi-wei and Du Kang Wine – By Robert Wexelblatt

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      In the morning, Fang Xuan-ling, a minister of the new Tang Dynasty, would be starting on his journey back to the court in Chang’an. ...

There Is No Home, but You Can’t Stay Here – By Itto...

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      Josephine’s life was left in shambles for the third time in March of 2024, when the man for whose sake she’d renounced all her...

The Outcasts – By Theni Seerudayan

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    Translated from the Tamil by Thangeswaran    I got off the bus, and stepped out of the exit door looking up at the road across and...

Better Than It Should Be – By Mohammed Khalaf

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      Translated from the Arabic by Essam M. Al-Jassim   He collapsed with a cry, the scattered fragments of his words—his papers—slipping through his fingers and drifting...

Asystole – By George Angel

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    It was the day after the elections. The sky above the city was overcast and witches left black streaks in the air. Intermittent rains...

Hsi-wei and the Game of Touhu – By Robert Wexelblatt

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       Two weeks before the Moon Festival, Chen Hsi-wei was making his way east through Xuzhou.  The itinerant sandal maker and peasant/poet had a whim...

Carpenter – By John Tavares

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      COLLEGE DORMS Helena slept for her first night in her college dormitory at Humber College. She never thought she would return to college, ten years...

Ultimate Fidelity – By Atef Ebeid

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    Translated from the Arabic by Essam M. Al-Jassim   She never expected him to betray her with her best friend. He didn’t know half of her...

Impostor – By Kevin Armor Harris

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      1 This is how I came to be in court, at the trial where I did not speak, where the judgement was passed, and I...