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Short Story

Abandoning a Pet

by Áron Bartal

He was gonna be the rest of my life.I was his and he was mine.We cut through the forest, like blades.Our edges defined us.I was sixteen and he was too ...read the full piece

"You Should Do As I Have Done" by Douglas Campbell

Short Story

When the Soil Softens

by Tilbe Akan

Another winter night. Again. There is no summer anymore, only winter and darkness. It’s almost always dark now. Every day, it seems the sun tries to ...read the full piece

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

Essay

Exits Exist

by Karen Cheung

The city is frothing with bodies and I am pacing, collecting. I landed in Hong Kong on November 16, 2023, and found that I no longer speak its ...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

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

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

Poetry

Exiles

by A.D. Capili

You remind me the blind in the bedroom is broken: I need to call somebody in Dutch, which already makes my thinking stutter;the cat peed again outside ...read the full piece

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Issue Fall '25

In Conversation

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

A Plurality of Women’s Lives — A Review of “Talking With Boys” by Tayyba Kanwal

News & Events

Tint Journal Author in Best Microfiction 2026

Tint Journal Authors Awarded with Pushcart Prize(s)

Fall '25: Out Now!

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