Issue Spring '25

"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

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

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

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

"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

"The Shape of Vital Perception" by Duane Toops

Poetry

Small Wishes

by Nawel Abdallah

If only she could love more as if the war had never broken her heart. If only she could read May Ziadeh and Ghassan Kanafani for hours under the sun, ...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

... more Fiction

... more Nonfiction

... more Poetry