Fiction

De Beauvoir and Sartre on the Kibbutz

By Moshe Sakal

July 2018
Moshe Sakal

Photo: Sarah McGee/Flickr While visiting a kibbutz to give a lecture, and after dining on both hot desert-root vegetable soup and sushi, the speaker becomes the listener when someone in...
Ancient History

By Rodrigo Fresán

May 2018
Rodrigo Fresán

Blood War, 2016, by Jia How Lee. The concept art is based on the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire. Years ago the man got married and years ago the man became unhappy in his marriage. T...
Annus Mirabilis (Anus Horribilis)

By Aleksey Lukyanov

May 2018
Aleksey Lukyanov

Photo: Skitterphoto/Pixabay Outside the Special Instrument Factory, protesters rally against war, corruption, and the latest in protective head gear: the Ex-Box. Procrustes-1 was t...
A Perfect Wife

By Angélica Gorodischer

May 2018
Angélica Gorodischer

illustration by Michael Vincent Manalo Anything might happen beyond a door opened by a perfect wife. to the memory of María Varela Osorio If you should meet her on the street, cro...
The Tenants

By Anne Richter

May 2018
Anne Richter

Photo: Daria Nepriakhina/Pixabay T he old man lived in a vast, dark house, windows blind with frosted glass, door adorned with a heavy bronze knocker. At one time or another, all five of his children...
The House

By Pierrette Fleutiaux

May 2018
Pierrette Fleutiaux

Duo III, 2013, oil on canvas by André Schulze Courtesy of the artist/andreschulze.com A mother inside, a daughter outside. Has her mother shrunk, or has she always been...
I Have the Right to Be a Stranger

By Inaya Jaber

March 2018
Inaya Jaber

photo: arcaion/pixabay After work, my friend and I go to the Café de Prague in the heart of the Hamra district. As we sit at a table by the large window, looking out on the lighted street, I think a...
The Pillar of Salt

By Zsuzsa Takács

January 2018
Zsuzsa Takács

After deciding to end it all, a woman takes a final subway ride. Z, the story writer, decided to end her diary. What is more, with an eye on approaching Christmas, she would adorn it with s...
In Nocere

By Laura Legge

January 2018
Laura Legge

Through story and stranger, two fallen-out friends mediate their way back to one another in the Edinburgh Zoo. M eet me in the waves, you bad fisherman, and I will give you Death by Water. T...
Equations of State

By Kristine Ong Muslim

January 2018
Kristine Ong Muslim

And somewhere in all these, all these possible variants of the bus-taking crowd, was Karl, who would appear from out of nowhere, and I would be the only one who could see him. I did not kn...
The Trial of Socrates (an excerpt)

By Alex Stein

November 2017
Alex Stein

Photo: Pixabay Using Socrates’ trial as his point of departure, the author spins out a meditation on wisdom, the divine, justice, grace, and desire like “an arrow in the chest.” “We cann...
Checking out the Apartment

By Montasser Al-Qaffash

November 2017
Montasser Al-Qaffash

An apartment on the bank of the Nile River for a fair price sounds like a no-brainer, unless that apartment happens to be right next to one of the most infamous prisons in Egypt. Th...
#Moving

By María José Navia

November 2017
María José Navia

Photo: Katherine Dewey Hill This story begins with three @ handles and ends with two.With a single hashtag, repeated insistently like a mantra...
The Binding of Isaac

By Stephen Mitchell

November 2017
Stephen Mitchell

Menashe Kadishman (1932–2015), The Sacrifice of Isaac, 1985, cor-ten steel, 15' 1" x 15' 5" x 9'. Kadishman’s sculpture “was partly inspired by an experience the artist had while se...
The History of Grains

By Gianni Skaragas

September 2017
Gianni Skaragas

Life jackets and a boat used by refugees and migrants to cross the Aegean Sea from Turkey lie abandoned on the Greek island of Lesbos (Photo: Aris Messinis / AFP / Getty Images) An intimate yet u...
We Were the New Era

By Andreas Baum

September 2017
Andreas Baum

Photo: Daniel Krieg In post-unification Berlin, groups of squatters compete for empty housing. Who will gain the upper hand? The next morning, a group of angry men were standing in...
Made Flesh

By Alit Karp

September 2017
Alit Karp

Illustration: flickr.com / xyzquantumpoet A Lutheran seminary student wonders what it takes to become a Jew for his girlfriend, whose embrace is “not a preface to anything else.” I ...
Ricky

By Eddie Chuculate

May 2017
Eddie Chuculate

Cliff jumping at Tenkiller Lake, August 2011. Photo: Rachel Folmar A teenager finds himself living in the shadow of his lover’s deceased boyfriend. Cordell stopped by the gallery to drop off...
Labrador

By Daniel Dencik

May 2017
Daniel Dencik

Photo: Kai C. Schwarzer A relationship is put to the test when a young couple visits a family member on an isolated island. We left home to think it over. Nanna had an abortion three years a...
Cyber-proletarian

By Claudia Salazar Jiménez

March 2017
Claudia Salazar Jiménez

Illustration: Heidi Tailleferr First and foremost, we focus on the comfort of our clients.” “And what aspects of your operations are oriented toward that goal?...
Scenes from the Life of an Autocrat

By Basma Abdel Aziz

March 2017
Basma Abdel Aziz

Photo: YSBRANDCOSIJN / 123rf stock photo Who needs confusing laws and bothersome committees when you have an autocrat writing principles for every aspect of your life? He was not tall or br...
The Objects

By Yuri Herrera

March 2017
Yuri Herrera

Photo: www.flickr.com/people/fineplan When you are a pestilent being the world stops being pestilent. Or does it? Each night Rafa stares at the vestibule in hatred until those in li...
Leaving

By Slađana Kavarić

March 2017
Slađana Kavarić

Photo: James Abbott Some people feel a need to be silent, but I need to look at myself in the mirror, scream, smash things, and tear up my own writing. That’s not so bad, it really isn’t, because all...
Koko and Raden

By Brano Mandić

March 2017
Brano Mandić

Profile photo: Chandan Kumar Photo: Michael Pham If only people loved one another and learned to save money, if only the children at the orphanage could get foster parents, if only the sun shone bri...
White Dogs

By Milovan Radojević

March 2017
Milovan Radojević

Photo: Barn Images/ ift.tt/1PhXbX2 Since you intend to kill yourself anyway, why don’t you fit your death into our plans? We need heroes, and it’s all the same to you, he...