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Stuck. My feet are trapped in the mud. It spread across the camp’s grounds after the frigid night. Generous rains soaked the tents of the displaced, sinking them in shallow wat…
Creative Nonfiction
Photo by Fadi Thabet On Refugee Street, one chances upon countless people who are driven temporarily into insanity.And the narrator described her as a wilted rose. I met her by chance on R…
Photo by Yousef Khanfar “Let the world know that we are ghosts indeed—since ghosts cannot be extinguished, nor can they be defeated.”I’m a man who’s been turning into a ghost with the pass…
Photo by Feodor Chistyakov / Unsplash.com A mourner at a funeral reflects on the role of queer elders.Made ordinary and mundane, queer deaths big and small trigger modest seisms with each…
Illustration by europeana / Unsplash.com Muin Masri grew up in Palestine before immigrating to Italy in 1985. Cross for Sale is a loose collection of stories and memories—sometimes lyr…
Photo by Aziz Shihab / Courtesy of the author Naomi Shihab Nye recalls the “precious tender threadbare glory of each day” she experienced as a child who was not in a hurry to grow up.…
Photo of Chacarita cemetery Dario Ricardo / Stock.adobe.com Some mornings from my ground-floor study window I see a man pass by on a bicycle with a boy on the backseat behind him. Normally by then…
Photo of Rivadavia by Jaay dev Singh / Unsplash.com Buenos Aires is many things, including a city for walking, snapping photographs, and writing poetry in notebooks while nibbling a medialuna in a…
Photo by Ehud Neuhaus / Unsplash.com Time is an assassin. There are days that occur in the past. Today, for example, a January Monday in 2019, the sky stretched out like a blue sheet. Yesterday I…
Photo of Sharon Jones / ZUMA Press, Inc. / Alamy Stock Photo A writer remembers her mother who, had she been an artist, would have been Sharon Jones, and asks: Am I an artist? Which may be as…
Photos courtesy of the author “Ruins give us this beautiful idea,” writes the author, “that you could make something, something wonderful and strange, as pleasing as you could, imbuing it with som…
Author’s note: I wrote this story because I yearn for the days that the wind has swept away. In the neighborhood of fishermen where I was born, we kids didn’t have a bathroom. Only adults had…
Photo courtesy of Ksenia Emelianchik / Unsplash Franco’s legacy falls across a celebration of two friends’ birthdays but fails to stifle the hard-earned, uncontainable, savored joy. Up four…
Photos by Daniel Lincoln and Debby Hudson / Unsplash The Georgian Sketchbook is both a poet’s diary and a chronicle of a Russian war exile in Georgia. Irina Lewinsky, an executive member of the Sa…
Looking for relief and new possibilities, a lecturer at the University of Ibadan travels to Cape Town, but the route is anything but direct. By 1999 the massive exodus out of Nigeria had attained a c…
Earlier today, as our car was on queue along the Saudi–Bahrain causeway, he turned down the stereo volume for a moment. “What will happen to this Filipini?” The Mary Jane Veloso trial was broadcaste…
Cairo Al-Rifa'i Mosque | Photo by Mohammed Moussa | CC BY-SA 3.0 An Iranian woman living in the US seeks to understand the meaning of home on a journey to Egypt to visit the burial place…
Interior of Arbatskaya subway station in Moscow, Russia A woman sweeping the Moscow metro with a twig broom, a violinist playing a Beatles tune, and Chekhov: Philip Metres reflects on his…
Translator’s note: The following text by Lin Yi-Han, like her novel Fang Si-Chi’s First Love Paradise, is based on the theme of what it’s like to dwell in a body that carries traum…
What Is Lost Can you picture the Argentine pampa? Flat fields, eucalyptus trees, a seemingly inoffensive landscape where a gray sunset might use your boiling blood to paint a path…
Transfer of Saint Remi relics, stained glass window in the Basilica of Saint Clotilde in Paris, France Named after a medieval French bishop, a transgender poet and essayist reflects on th…
Photo courtesy of the author. for Juan José Hurtado, in memoriam For the narrator of the following crónica, 16mm films made by Kaqchikel villagers, flying ants, and dragonflies…
Gloria Blizzard and Jazz, Lake Ontario, Canada | Photo by Heidi Seirekidis This essay takes the form of a jazz standard. Nestled within the intro and outro are alternating A and B section…
Photo by by Elena Croitoru A countryside flâneuse in search of her deceased grandfather contemplates anchoring, wandering, and the small marks we leave on the world. How does one ge…
Girma Berta, Asmara XII (2018), digital archival print, 45 x 60 cm / Courtesy of Addis Fine Art Oscillating between Asmara, Eritrea, and Washington, DC, the narrator reflects on…
