The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am
I have always liked to finish things. Ear-muffs, winter, spring, summer, autumn. Epsilon’s working life. Get it over with. And this impatience had consequences when Epsilon gave me an… More
A Thousand Pearls (for a Thousand Pennies)
Penny for them?I was thinking that several years went by between the moment when I realized that I would die and the moment when I realized that I would… More
Quiet Chaos
I do spinning. Yolanda’s cellphone starts ringing in the nick of time: it forces her to walk a few steps away from me to answer it, and I can… More
Animals in our Days
The eyes of the oryx between Rusafa and Jisr/ Have brought on a desire whose source I both know and know not.—Ali bin al-JahmIn field research, Dr. Larissa Conradt… More
Natalia Sannikova: Free Verses to My Son
Free Verses to My SonWhen you’ve read as many books, poems, and blogsas I’ve already read,you’ll find out just how little I get literature.For example, Blok—he wrote about Woman and… More
The Truth That Killed
The preview of my play before a restricted invited audience had been planned by the theatre management with two aims in view—to sound out the authorities and to seek… More
Voice from Beyond the Grave
Voice from Beyond the GraveHere lie my mortal remainsIn the field of eternal restThe last stop of a transient life with multiple destiniesThe clay covers my icy dead bodyThe… More
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