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A Bridge Between
by D.G. Rosales
We were halfway through assembling the dresser for the baby's room when we gave up. The kind of giving up that happens in late pregnancy when ...read the full piece >>Essay
A Year in Tokyo
by Jee Ann Marie E. Guibone
The first thing you notice in Tokyo is a siren going off every night. You’ve booked a business hotel in a suburb of Nishi-Shinjuku. It’s a stone’s ...read the full piece >>Poetry
Alba
by Malavika M Nair
Six o’ clock and the sun brought a quintet of silent crawlers to the concrete, five glass snails on a line, lost in plans of their morning walk: in ...read the full piece >>Essay
Algorithmic Womanhood
by Paulina Jarantewicz
I don’t remember when I stopped looking at my body and started auditing it. It happens at 6 a. m. now, still in bed, before my eyes have fully opened. ...read the full piece >>Flash Nonfiction
Chungking Express
by Cookie Noh
Reading English texts is taxing. Like a bricklayer, I have built understanding block by block with patience. However, the rare vocabulary items, ...read the full piece >>Poetry
crying with an apple in my hand
by Aida-Flavia Ciucaș
apple skin.tears driedbefore the bite. seeds sleep.no roots.no rain. an orchardof silencein my palm. ...read the full piece >>Poetry
Daughter of Bays and Hills
by Penny Wei
In my hometown, God takes the shape of a cleaver.So the first time I lied was to a rooster. I promised not to watch but its blood arced thin and ...read the full piece >>Short Story
Deda and Baba Forever. A Diptych.
by Mark Budman
One part of this story, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Farm,” was originally published in a slightly different version in Moon City Review. I. A ...read the full piece >>Short Story
Dust
by Olga Ruchina
I am an archive of suffering. I’m 25 years old. Ancient, by our standards. Most of us live a week or two, maybe a few months if they’re lucky enough ...read the full piece >>Poetry
Esperanto of Babel
by Khang-Ninh Đặng
“The cliff demands a” “jump” “Highon a Saturday night” “We look through”“the pina colada” “seeking”“another country” “bombed” “Distorted ...read the full piece >>Flash Nonfiction
Moon Jar
by Bora Hah
1. For days, I couldn’t write anything. Tired, I was so tired — even in my dreams. 2. That afternoon, I went to see a moon jar. I love moon jars. ...read the full piece >>Flash Fiction
Papanca
by Pamela Smith
It’s two in the morning, and she’s in the bathroom, bleach coats the floor, thick, suffocating.It spreads like a blanket no one ever asked for.The ...read the full piece >>Short Story
Promise Me Always
by Jayden Bird
Afghanistan, 2004 Nausea rolled through my empty stomach, the damp air heavy with the stench of urine and feces. Six weeks we’d been in this hell. Six ...read the full piece >>Short Story
Proof of Magic
by Jowita Bydlowska
Inside me there is a flattened, pear-shaped organ called a pancreas, and a collection of other slick, cooperating parts I barely think about unless ...read the full piece >>Poetry
sappho
by MK Kuol
there is a slim songhowling in the throat of these northern windsa song about inebriated men inebriated menwho in the serenity night offerswage war ...read the full piece >>Poetry
scorpio season
by Niki Orfanou
she showed mea jarof scorpionsshe pickedwith a forkthe markon her handone jumpedstungone halfof herhowledlike a beartrappedin wirethe other ...read the full piece >>Flash Nonfiction
The Bird Incident
by Tired Cat
I’ll tell you what it feels like to trust your associative memory and then publicly humiliate yourself with it. Spoiler: it feels exactly as stupid as ...read the full piece >>Essay
The Bitter Smell of Sagebrush
by Aizhan Yesbolatova
When we approached the village, I didn’t recognize the house. It felt strange because, in my memory, it stood there so vividly; yet, when the driver ...read the full piece >>Flash Nonfiction
The Malwiya
by Amro Alkado
“Wisalna lo ba’ad? Ba’ad ishwiya lil cha’ab!” we chanted in unison. — “Are we there yet or not? Just a little further to go!” The minibus rattled ...read the full piece >>Short Story
The Other Side
by Somrwita Guha
I knew something was wrong the moment I saw the shoes. It wasn’t the usual neat line of sandals, school shoes, and the battered floaters my uncles ...read the full piece >>Poetry
The Perfumers
by Oindrila Ghosal
The perfumers ply acrossThe crackedRugged promenadesIn silenceLike rows of ants.Like molten honeyThe overhead sunDrips down theirBare backs —Insulated ...read the full piece >>Essay
The Sleeping Fox
by Francesca Chiari
In a 2013 report, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, estimated around 430,000 red foxes living in the United Kingdom, mostly in ...read the full piece >>Poetry
To Hold the Falling Light
by Melissa Luz
here —i try to hold what won’t stay and my fingersbecome cracked riverbedswhere things meant to be water refuse to settle since the first timei saw ...read the full piece >>Poetry
X-humation
by Athena Melliar
A docupoem (Sestina) Shall we walk? I’ll be your guide here, in the most chthonian rooms, stanze of dei morti — dead you’ll ever be: Follow me through ...read the full piece >>