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Flash Fiction

Cloth

by Niels Bekkema

He would have liked to try sentences — to feel their weight. Better still, he would have liked to stand up, to extend his back and press the crown of ...read the full piece

"Reaching for the Sun" by Chynna Williams

Flash Fiction

Dovetail

by Chelsea Allen

This is again my summer of space. Space sleeping between me and the wall, twisting and turning and wailing right until the dawn lilac. Space taking ...read the full piece

Short Story

Practical

by Johan Smits

They said it’d be risky, that I was being taken for a ride, that it wouldn’t be worth it and God knows what else, but I’m glad that in the end I took ...read the full piece

Essay

New Words, New Worlds

by Alina Zollfrank

It snoozes on the bookshelf, slightly dusty and, upon further inspection, as battered as I remember. The soft, sunflower-yellow cover is warped and ...read the full piece

Flash Nonfiction

Changing the Story

by Ekow Agyine-Dadzie

I come from a place so small it is not even on the map: Awutu Oshimpo in the Central Region of Ghana. A quiet village with red dust, bare feet, and ...read the full piece

Essay

The End of Endings

by Anneliz Marie Erese

1. How many endings have happened to me after good lovemaking? I cannot count. I refuse to count. The lovemaking is only a culmination of other things ...read the full piece

Poetry

You

by Marisol Moreno Ortiz

You are shavings of colored pencils — curves, uneven edges, and splinters underneath skin. You are a puzzle in every world with different zippers hand ...read the full piece

"Places we didn't travel to" by Anna Major

Poetry

Lacrimosa

by Rudrangshu Sengupta

1. Did you know there’s a flood in the mirror everytime you blink?The night sways in silk, in the hush of an ocean that never stops whispering. ...read the full piece

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Issue Fall '25

In Conversation

Jhumpa Lahiri — The Writer Who Changed Her Own Tongue

Love and Its Many Tints — A Review of Juhea Kim’s “A Love Story From the End of the World”

A Woman’s Life, Out of Line — A Review of “Girls Who Stray” by Anisha Lalvani

A Brief and Personal History of Literary Translingualism — An Interview with Natasha Lvovich

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