Issue Spring '25

"Pompeii Archaeological Park" by Joykrit Mitra

Short Story

The Ones Left Behind

by Mariana Serapicos

I watched it as it gasped for air, flopping around in the very last seconds of its life. As a kid, I desperately wanted a pet. I’d wanted a dog or a ...read the full piece

"Ma mère, mon père et moi" by Alexiane Montpetit-Meilleur

Short Story

The Skating Rink

by Caroline Siebbeles

My friendship with Eileen became really serious the day her mother took her up to our apartment to stay with us on a more or less permanent basis. ...read the full piece

Flash Fiction

Colourless Fridays

by Wera Lou Gmeiner

When they meet first, they share a dash, being red-haired or twenty-one. Next to them, a cement mixer, grazing like a cow. And when he sees her, he ...read the full piece

Essay

Glory

by Tanya Ng Cheong

The speaker played all the songs listed for Song Of The Year, covering up the sizzling sound of the BBQ. It reached the “Local” category, and among ...read the full piece

"Before the Deep Sleep" by Mirja Paljakka

Essay

Fish, Water, Lemons, Sea

by Bianca-Olivia Nita

The more I tried to photograph the waves, the clearer it became that waves are not meant to be photographed. They elude the frame. There is no frame ...read the full piece

Flash Nonfiction

Where No One Could Find You

by Lara Della Gaspera

It always struck me as unusual, the way your childhood photos were displayed in a bathroom — a liminal space, neither public nor private, down the ...read the full piece

Poetry

Makoko

by Ibrahim Oladeji Tijani

When the sun lies down, stars and the moon thread their light — woven nets cast above and below us. At dawn, we wear the skin of angels, feet hover ...read the full piece

Poetry

Knot

by Madina Tuhbatullina

I am the kind above the plaster churches. We happen to share this sentence. I pretend every sound is a letter, cluster your freckles and thread the ...read the full piece

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