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...
Hsi-wei and the Mandate of Heaven – By Robert Wexelblatt
“The people are obliged to obey the command of Heaven. They must revere and submit to those who bear its Mandate. No duty is...
Cleaning – By Norbert Kovacs
The stain had grown out of hand, Marcia Wilson thought raising her spray in the family bathroom. Black mildew that first covered a patch...
Father – By Blaze Minevski
Translated from Macedonian by Elizabeta Bakovska
Now there are many people that write about what happened in our time, but only the two of us...
Black Rainbow – By Miriam Sagan
(An Excerpt from the novel)
….Fifteen year old Rania has gone in search of the woman who killed her pregnant mother. She is taken in...
Revenge – By Mahmood Jamool
Translated from the Arabic by Essam M. Al-Jassim
The fourth time I knocked on the door to ask for my beloved’s hand in marriage, her...
Arab Spring – By Gregorio Tafoya
His dad threatened to take his allowance—to lower it at least. Ethan tried reasoning with him, but the man was resolute, his authority not...
The Autumn of the General – By Nabeel Najjar
Translated from the Arabic by Essam M. Al-Jassim
He woke up early, as usual, and slipped swiftly from beneath the immense pile of blankets to...
Briefest Use – By Hayden Moore
This is an allegorical fiction following a girl named Echo as she tries to navigate a city where words only have meaning in the...
Montmartre – By Julian Gallo
Pedestrian incubus; deformed cardboard faces and a Polish girl chatting with two thuggish drug dealers as rain pisses down on dizzying faces with handfuls...
