Barge – By Kalyani Bindu
A girl is carrying her mother’s seemingly externally fertilized embryos in her hands, the mushy bean pod string of portioned meat attached to the...
The Radius of Her Heart – By Bhoomi J N
1. Unforeseen Tide
She sat alone on the beach, a solitary figure amidst the noise of a foreign coast. In her mid-thirties but possessing the...
Clara’s Clues – By Mary Lewis
On my way downtown I saw her a block away, too late to go to the other side of the street. I readied myself,...
Damaged Goods – By E. C. Traganas
‘Shattered people are best represented by bits and pieces’
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Queens, New York 1959
He hesitated for a few seconds at the top of...
Why Don’t You Understand, Anna? – By Nagma Sinha
It was five in the morning and Anna lay awake on her bed staring at the white ceiling. She had been sleepless most of...
Parallel – By Es-said Skhiri
Translated from the Arabic by Essam M. Al-Jassim
He was sitting there, and I was sitting here. He reached out toward something I couldn’t see...
Blood and Sand – By Julian Gallo
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
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...
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
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...
