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Flash Fiction

Rearview Echoes

by Smita Das Jain

07:05 AM She boards in silence, fingers tapping her phone like it’s a lifeline. Her eyes are ringed in sleepless smudges, mascara barely clinging. ...read the full piece

Short Story

Stitched

by Anna Pedko

Her grandmother was the last person Svitlana went to say goodbye to before leaving. Not because she didn’t have any warm feelings toward Granny but ...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

Essay

Your Anger Is Entrusted to Me

by Helin Yüksel

Dedicated to Leyla[1], all Leylas, and Ünzile[2], all Ünziles By growing up around 16 women from both sides, Mom’s and Dad’s, 10-year-old she already ...read the full piece

Essay

A Farce in the Cultural Revolution

by Sue Tong

A Child’s Handwriting Sparked a Storm When the Cultural Revolution broke out in 1966, our family — branded among the “Black Five Categories” — was ...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

Layers of Home

by Leila Zolfalipour

In the backyard where the air hums,I stand, where both lands converge,A quiet bridge between the roots of my past,And the soil that holds my footsteps ...read the full piece

Poetry

Still & Μωβ

by Vasiliki Sifostratoudaki

Still & Μωβ[1] still[2]There is nothing that doesn’t fit in writing or couldn’t grow in it.I had no land nor space, she was with me, from toes to ...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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Tint Journal Author in Best Microfiction 2026

Tint Journal Authors Awarded with Pushcart Prize(s)

Fall '25: Out Now!

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