Of all my arrears and accruals, it’s the bin debt that drags on me the most. It rolls up to my door weekly, where it accumulates and compounds, impossible to ...
America’s train stations and air terminals are its true cathedrals, motels may be it’s shrines.
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If we arrange to meet in Venice, where would you suggest? Outside St Mark’s Cathedral might seem the obvious place, but hectic and not very relaxing with crowds of tourists ...
In this story we breathe the intimacy of a sensual, gritty city
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A stormy sky, birds in brutal combat, and a life likened to muddy puddles—a haunting reflection on existence and forgotten moments.
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Thelma and Louise sprang to mind while we were driving on the E763 towards Zlatibor. In our home movie, the roles were reversed. Instead of us being against the whole ...
Twenty-five years is a life ago. Mexico has changed, I have changed, but the image of the happy young bride wearing a short white dress is something burned into my ...
“We’re already in it, aren’t we.”- Rita
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In the dim glow of the club, amidst the ephemeral exchanges and the facade of names, a portrait of divine adoration is crafted, revealing the sacred within the profane.
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Can you own the dead? ‘Well?’ she asks, studying the small yellow teeth. ‘Can you?
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And so the creatures watch me watching you watching the doctor and his wife.
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In the silence of the back bedroom, his sobs were a testimony to a life altered by negligence, a reminder of the cost paid in human lives for industrial progress. ...
A campfire wavers up ahead and from the dark, her husband’s arm envelopes her. Together, they cross the bridge spanning the strand of dusky water. Swaying. His hand is braided ...
In a tale of survival and unforeseen consequences, children stranded on a lush, ring-shaped island discover the delicate balance between nature’s bounty and its limits. Their journey from innocence to ...
Discover the complex bond of tradition and change through Ruth’s shrimp preparation, inherited from her mother yet challenged by her daughter’s ethical views, delving into generational shifts and the ...
Unexpected encounters at sea redefine love in Sarah’s honeymoon journey
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Fields, ferries, and the price of a promise unfulfilled. Pickin Season by Donna Obeid.
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How can children make sense of change? Recalling hot summers and spam salads, Kim reflects on childhood memories.
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My hair twists into knots of clouds and my brother frees them his fingers a silver comb. May Day 1969 by Roberta Beary
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The debut short story from Polish writer Urszula Honek, White Nights, is akin to reading an account of a haunted place – one that is beautiful and devastating in equal ...