Issue Spring '25

Flash Fiction

Dazed

by Christian Lesmes

“What does this Eel eat?” I asked, watching it swim around a white bucket. “Bananas,” said the owner of the processing plant. The long, shiny body ...read the full piece

"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

"Only Our Shadow Knows" by Jack Bordnick

Short Story

You and My Memory Keeper

by Shrutidhora P Mohor

I set him weekly tasks, tasks that he must finish to my satisfaction. Sometimes that means noting the details of date and time of faded pictures. At ...read the full piece

"Carnations Like Pastels" by Tinamarie Cox

Flash Nonfiction

Warsaw Sweethearts: A Women’s Day Memoirs

by Elodie A. Roy

On International Women’s Day in Warsaw there are flower carts everywhere. Some sellers don’t even have a cart or a table to display their wares. They ...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

The Woman on the Bench

by Ludivine Massin

I was walking down Abovyan Street and my daughter was screaming; as she had been down Teryan Street and all the streets before that, and she hadn’t ...read the full piece

"Resplendor Profundo y Desconocido" by Zino Haro

Poetry

Unanswered Prayers

by Jesimiel Williams

I cannot speak her language, my mother, Yet it calls to me, distorted to my hearing. I answer with a borrowed tongue, born of subservience, Patched ...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

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