Fiction

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...
Of Darkness (two excerpts)

By Josefine Klougart

January 2017
Josefine Klougart

Photo: Michael Pereckas Of Darkness is a book about love and death. These seem to me to be the only things worth writing about. When you write about love and death, the beauty in this world’s fa...
FOR SALE: Set of secondhand IMPORTED Momo mags for TOYOTA COROLLA (mint condition), bargain

By Nick Mulgrew

January 2017
Nick Mulgrew

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Three Flash Fictions

By Olga Zilberbourg

January 2017
Olga Zilberbourg

How to Deliver a Genius Advice from a St. Petersburg–based website (*) Conceive in April, May, or June. A child conceived in the fall has no chance to amount to anyt...
Cosmo Girl

By Nadia Villafuerte

January 2017
Nadia Villafuerte

Mexico City’s TAPO station from above. Photo: Anthony Quigley She picks up her suitcase. Gets in line. Shows her ticket without letting her fist tremble. Checks her luggage. They’re not...
The Grouse Hunt

By Iben Mondrup

November 2016
Iben Mondrup

Photo: Gerry Paille/Flickr In this story from a snowy Greenland, a woman reluctantly joins her husband in the woods for a grouse hunt. Ready . . . aim . . . She’s still in bed. She...
Heavens on Earth (an excerpt)

By Carmen Boullosa

November 2016
Carmen Boullosa

Tamas Galambos, Summer, 1981, oil on canvas. A detail from Galambos’s painting also appears on the cover of García Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude reprinted by Peng...
Danube 1954

By Zsuzsa Selyem

November 2016
Zsuzsa Selyem

Photo: Funkyfood London - Paul Williams / Alamy Along the shore of the Danube, a cat reflects on world history and human nature. From Oppenheimer to Donne to Stalin to Ana Pauker the mus...
Dreamwriter (Autobiography)

By Gunnhild Øyehaug

November 2016
Gunnhild Øyehaug

Photo by Jo Christian Oterhals If, the woman thinks, she were an airplane that crashed and someone located the little black box, that would be the sentence they found, to hear water, but...
The Gardens of Kammer Castle

By Zsuzsa Takács

November 2016
Zsuzsa Takács

Gustav Klimt, Allée in the Gardens of Schloss Kammer, 1912, oil on canvas. Osterreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria / Artothek / Bridgeman images Ride the tram through...
Home

By Alison Wong

November 2016
Alison Wong

Photo: flickr.com/people/duluoz_cats With Neil Young playing in the background, a New Zealand woman living in Australia recrosses the ocean over a game of Checkers. Luke shakes the...
Why La Luna Did It / The Moon Mother

By Bárbara Renaud González

September 2016
Bárbara Renaud González

A long, long, time ago, in the time of the gods, two of them were in love with the same goddess. Que hermosa, with her shining white and blue-blue rainbow hair surrounded by stars circling her like e...
Tell Me What’s Happening to Me (an excerpt)

By Agustín del Moral Tejeda

September 2016
Agustín del Moral Tejeda

Photo by Juan Di Nella/Unsplash I’m not the first to ask, but for a long time I’ve been wondering about one of the first dilemmas we’ve faced as a band: the question of language. To put it in terms o...
A Creature of Habit

By Rumena Bužarovska

September 2016
Rumena Bužarovska

Photo by Ariel Dovas Stasis and disruption go head to head in this story from Macedonia. It’s not clear whether my husband is going to be ambassador for much longer, as he might be...
The Stone Wall

By Lee Upton

September 2016
Lee Upton

Something there is that doesn’t love a wall. – Robert Frost Even from a distance we could tell something was wrong with the wall. When we went out to the pasture the ground seemed f...
The Green Ball

By Lygia Fagundes Telles

May 2016
Lygia Fagundes Telles

Photo by Soffie Hicks In this story by Brazil’s nominee for the Nobel Prize, a young girl will let nothing stop her from attending Carnival, not even her dying father. The blue-and-...
A Broken Foot, a Hex Wrench, and Baby Gaggia

By Anastasia Edel

May 2016
Anastasia Edel

A broken foot is poor luck and a nuisance. It cancels everything from hikes to trips to Germany. It gives your insurance company an opportunity to feast and acquaints you with an orthopedist, often m...
Snow

By Carlos Pintado

May 2016
Carlos Pintado

Photo by Michael Andrews On her eightieth birthday, a woman waits for a telephone call in this story inspired by Elizabeth Bishop’s “Sonnet.” How can everything change without our realiz...