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In this story of lengthy quarantine due to an unnamed virus, a woman sneaks into the mountain to collect ferns—many ferns. Simultaneously evoking life under past…
Fiction
June 8, 2020
July 25, 2019Photo by Stephen A. Wolfe / Flickr Flamingo #13 may have been the most beautiful flamingo in the world the villagers had ever heard of. All throughout the year, there was talk of it everywhere. Whene…
June 20, 2019Gunter Silva and 2019 WLT Translation Prize (Fiction) winner Samantha Vila “Numbers are the language of the universe,” my father would often say. “The only path to discover the mystery of wh…
June 6, 2019Vincent Brassinne, “Purple Hell – Trees in Motion 2” / Flickr On June 3, 1510, the graying Arbërian prince Gjon Muzaka was sitting at his desk.[i] He had the vertiginous feeling that his eyes were un…
May 16, 2019Photo of Tétouan by Jean-Louis Potier / Flickr An early novel, L’Écrivain public (The public scribe) is a surrealistic, semi-autobiographical work that imagines the arc of the author’s l…
April 4, 2019Sodanie Chea, “Day 96: Free Falling – Explored” / Flickr Israeli writer Tehila Hakimi’s Company (2018) is an experimental, fragmentary text—addressed to a nameless “woman in a workspace”…
March 7, 2019Photo by Kevin Bessat / Unsplash In this fictive dialogue of Johanna Schopenhauer with her son, Arthur, family appears as a philosophical playing field: mother-root and son’s wants. Of dreams and…
November 13, 2018Female redback spider / Photo by serapheus / Courtesy of Flickr A poisonous spider, a fascinated boy, an indulgent dad, and a cautious mom ignored by all. What could possibly go…
October 19, 2018Photo courtesy of freestocks.org In this opening to Montenegrin writer Olja Knežević’s novel Gospođa Black, a group of migrant friends drink tea together in London. An antilove…
October 2, 2018In a novelistic take on #MeToo, Kat Meads’s “historically aware, pissed-off female chorus” narrates the story of undergraduate Miss Jane as she sinks into an entanglement with Prof P, th…
June 26, 2018Photo (left to right) Translator Laura Shanahan and author Anna Maria Ortese Part One: Night Falls on the Hilltops On the evening of June 19 (evening only in a manner of speaking, a…
June 19, 2018( ) “I’ll have another glass of kwos.” The spolver gave me a questioning look. Probably trouble hearing me through the loud moloda. Just like last time, I raised my forepogger and repeated my order.…
June 4, 2018Photo by Tina Rataj-Berard / Unsplash The fictions of Ukrainian-born writer Felix Krivin, “punctuated by sharp irony and acerbic humor,” have been described as “fairy tales for adults” t…
May 21, 2018Courtesy of Pixabay Translator’s note: Biljana Jovanović (1953–96) is a largely untranslated but highly regarded Serbian feminist writer. Jovanović was a Serbian intellectual who grew up…
August 17, 2016Copyright Maaboret – The Short Story project The Short Story Project is a non-profit venture dedicated to promoting the art of storytelling across the world, our mission is to advance short story li…
August 3, 2016Translators’ Note Acclaimed in China, Fang Qi has published two works: Elegy of a River Shaman and The Ivory Bed of the Princess. A long-term researcher of myths…
July 13, 2016Illustration of Joseph dreaming. Public Domain. A second-career medical interpreter for Russian immigrants in Boston contemplates his role—a biblical Joseph? a robot?—and the system that brings h…
November 4, 2015Yuko Shimizu created the original illustrations that accompany Cunningham’s tales in A Wild Swan. The following is an excerpt from A Wild Swan, due out next w…
August 19, 2015Set in an old house in provincial East Germany, “Coming” begins with a boy’s memories of the ghastly suicidal wails of the women who lived in his neighborhood. Trying to escape these painful cries…
August 3, 2015Enjoy this recipe from the Zsolt Láng cookbook and look forward to two more in WLT’s September issue. Illustration by Marla Johnson Prod the freshly picked memory meticulously with…
July 1, 2015Granada, Spain. Photo by Allie Caulfield. In this excerpt from Luis García Montero’s third and latest novel, Someone Speaks Your Name, Granada is gray, sad, a…
September 15, 2014for Adolfo Bioy Casares By Alicia D'Amico [Public domain or Public domain],via Wikimedia Commons Today, September 15, would have been Adolfo Bioy Casares’s 100th birthday. A pro…
August 19, 2014Slovene protestors dressed as zombies. Photo by Jumpin' Jack/Flickr With political elites in power who, many claim, were out of touch with the people, the small, Adriatic countr…
August 14, 2014A best-seller at the 2010 Arab Book Fair in Beirut, 32 follows the life of a young woman in her thirties, her four female friends, and a Sri Lankan domestic worker. The book sheds light o…
July 21, 2014Photo by Julie Skarwecki/Flickr What are masters for? Isn’t the relationship between master and disciple one of those relationships whose very existence depends on it never bein…
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