Photo by Shunsuke Ono / Unsplash.comA lover of love, everything Momo does is designed to give her the advantage.
They pretty much spent their days sifting through the freckles, moles, and pimples that…
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Photo of Ogiek animal horn by Survival International © Survivalinternational.orgDeciding between his mother’s sweet love and his father’s conditional approval, Kimurguk endures a harrowing rite of pas…
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Illustration by Apirak / Stock.adobe.com.Trigger warning for mental health, threats of violence and sexual violence, and suicidal ideation. Be careful what you wish for—especially online, especially i…
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Photo by Edwin Tan / istockphoto.comTrigger warning for suicide and graphic violence. Desperate to have a child, a couple takes an unorthodox route to conception. But did they bargain with the devil?…
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Photo by Joelee Creative / Stock.adobe.comIn this excerpt from a classic Argentine horror novel, something sinister visits a bathing woman in her new apartment. “The high heels! The high heels!” When…
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Illustration by fran_kie / Unsplash.comThree groups of children dine at long tables inside cages in this claustrophobic tale of no escape. We, my brothers and sisters and I, have broad dining tables.…
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Painting by Liza Martín, Untitled (2024), oil on canvas, 20x26cm.Twenty-five degrees Celsius at midday on the winter solstice: the collected humidity of an entire continent bears mercilessly, shameles…
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Photo by Hugo Gomes/Wirestock Creators / Stock.adobe.comIt’s 2050, and five African nations have surrendered their sovereignty to form a new nation. To some, it was unfathomable that the rulers of c…
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Photo by driftwood / Stock.adobe.comThe offspring’s appetites know no end. What’s a mother, any mother—even that mother who nurtures us all—to do? The wound is smaller than last time, tiny teeth mark…
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Анна Удод - stock.adobe.comI. Northward January 2, Arrival By night they flew, korvat kuin korpit, ears like ravens, who hear a bark. They listened to the forest rustling; to the storms in the woods.…
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Sabrina Zarco, Tlacuache Medicine (2023), acrylic on canvas / zarcomontoyagaleria.bigcartel.comAfter a near-death experience, two beings explore memory, art, and medicine. The babies have no…
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The Woman He was a disgrace of a man. The lowest of the low. He pounded the table, every blow making the kerosene lamp shudder. The noise was accompanied by intermittent bursts of neurotic ranting an…
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An ordinary day in Ávila darkens following a neighborly intervention. Setting a succulent into the window box outside, Maria spotted the boys from 2D in the courtyard below. Three brick buildings and…
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Photo by Joachim Pressl on Unsplash A few days into a third lockdown, a cat and her human companion have differing views about how to handle an army of slugs attacking the petunias. My cat P…
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Photo by Abigail Keenan on Unsplash A young woman with two degrees and no job hits the streets of Palermo looking for work with only a Dorothy Parker poem to sustain her. Ratty slippers, di…
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In Colombian writer Octavio Escobar Giraldo’s first publication in English, it isn’t only the parishioner saying her Hail Marys. “I confess, Father. I confess that I am happy about the death…
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In this fraught meeting between father and daughter, a woman rescues what she can from an estranged relationship. two weeks ago, when i saw my father, i wrote, “dear diary, this morning when…
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A woman gives birth in a room where all the windows are covered with pages of a book to be burned. The woman inside, the women outside: all wait for the author. Luz is going to scream. She c…
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Dereje Demissie (Ethiopia), Psychscape (2009) A grandmother thinks of her two kite-flying grandchildren each time she wakes and sees the birds outside her window. The windows start…
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A girl executes her escape plan, with one unexpected twist at the end. She walks through the house. It’s quiet now; everyone’s sleeping. Behind the bedroom door she can hear her father’s dee…
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Photo by Ivy Yung on Unsplash Written in the early stages of the pandemic, this fairytale-like story finds a man looking to shape his environment to reflect the fragility of life—one screw at a t…
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Photo by Greg Rakozy & Alfons Morales on Unsplash In this short story from Japan, the narrator—who is disappearing organ by organ—dissolves into a library as encompassing as the cosmos.…
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In a dimly lit crypt, a woman loses her way and finds her thoughts toggling between a mysterious man in the dark tunnel and a childhood friend. The sun was setting when she got off the bus.…
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Artwork from Lwapula Province / Courtesy of Dr. Christine Saidi, Kutztown University The Aushi are an ethnolinguistic group located in the Lwapula Province of the Republic of Zambia and in the Ka…
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A woman’s writing, and routine, are disrupted when she meets a man on a bicycle. The signorina Maddalena Rubí has a passion for poetry. She writes a little after dinner each night, before go…