Issue Spring '25

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

Space for Interpretation

by Diana Kussainova

Ever since she was a kid, Saule Sagaidat liked to be first. The first to run up to an apple tree in the park. The first in class, with the highest ...read the full piece

Short Story

The Last Child

by Lars Love Philipson

In loving memory of my father, Henrik Philipson (1953-2025). “We can’t keep it in the house,” the father said. “He’s gone. Let go!” But the mother ...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

Essay

Radio Baltica

by Olga Zilberbourg

To listen to the songs that are mentioned in this text, tune in to the Spotify playlist that the author created for you. Where does your motherland ...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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