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Essay
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 >>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 >>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 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 >>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 >>