from Don’t Worry
Like always, she’s sitting at the out-of-tune grand piano, mashing down the pedal and making the windows of the Kolah Farangi Emirate tremble...Sara, when did you return? More
from Chaim Gravitzer
At the head of the table sat a wide-shouldered young man with laughing black eyes, feigning a strict demeanor. More
from Neverending Quest for the Other Shore
To all people of good faith embarked / on the obscure waters of immemorial chaos / where the djinn furiously unravel/ their long lamé manes / flying in the… More
from Revolt Against the Sun
She died, but no lips shook, no cheeks turned white / no doors heard her death tale told and retold, / no blinds were raised for small eyes to… More
from A Walk in the Shadows
No threat or reprimand could calm our racing hearts and the restlessness spurred by a place where rules and prohibitions fell on us without weight, like a feather. More
from One Left
The last one is out of her coma. For three weeks she recognized no one. She speaks in a labored, halting tone: “I can’t die—not when I think there… More
from Rhapsodia
Do the wings itch as they sprout? / When from the belly’s opening / you first raised your head / and pushing from the pain / sprang into the… More
from Matisse
Vadya’s biography was as much invented as it was true. There were so many blown-out-of-proportion intricacies to remember that he’d long ago lost sight of the facts. More
from Beyond Babylon
They’d told her to go there and make no detours. Because that was where people refashioned their dreams. That was where people found all the Somalis again. More
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