Shoreline – By George Angel
( Part 2 of 3)
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I have never lived anywhere with a swimming pool. And yet, I have a distinct memory...
Montmartre – By Julian Gallo
Pedestrian incubus; deformed cardboard faces and a Polish girl chatting with two thuggish drug dealers as rain pisses down on dizzying faces with handfuls...
Shoreline – By George Angel
What happens when what we know, what we live and feel leads us away from coherence and unity, and we are left only with...
Do Tell – By George Angel
(Note: The below text brings closure to the three pieces in Gossamer Buttresses (Grandeur, Misbehavior, and Anthropophagy) . An introductory text to the series can be...
Unborn and Nameless – By Joselo G. Ramos
Translated from the Spanish by Tyler Gebauer
"The history of mankind is the history of our misunderstandings with god, for he does not understand us,...
There Lay The Tattered Souls – By Rimli Bhattacharya
She snickered as she uttered her name, “Dhaleshwari”. I smirked.
“Didi, you continue with your studies. Dhala won’t disturb you”, her mother Sarala assured me.
“Doesn’t...
Revenge – By Blaze Minevski
Translated from Macedonian by Elizabeta Bakovska
The delivery of the last falcon for the sultan was late for almost three full years. Although Davidov, limping...
Sentimental Men – By Dennis Vannatta
On the night of the long hard day when their son, Jason, abandoned by his wife, returned home with his two sons, Peggy Gorey...
Tamales for Sale – By Kunal Mehra
She hugged her eight-year-old son Pedro goodbye, giving him his lunchbox.
“No enchilada?”, Pedro asked.
She shook her head. He loved enchiladas, and she wanted to...
Pigeons – By Richard Risemberg
"Look at that scruffy bum, thinking he's so sexy—hah!" Ellie gestured with her jaw. A fat male pigeon puffed and strutted on the brickwork...