A city night, a moving car, and a voice trying to make sense of what can’t be fixed. In “The Prayer,” MB Munroe writes grief as ritual — the kind ...
Four standout reads: Month of the Lilies, I’m Not Here, The Kingdom, and Guns, Ink and Smiles.
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A satirical dispatch from a world where faith is a product and obedience is enforced with a smile.
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A childhood near-miss, a plane in the sky, and a charm hidden for survival—then years later, a return to the building where memory lives in the air.
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An intuitive and resonant piece on grief and how a death makes us question what we are and what we know.
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Unusual, compelling, story about a stone mason’s apprentice fulfilling his own vision in the absence of his master, and his murder when the master returns.
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“Portraits of a Book Report: Zoe Schlanger” (ink on paper. 11×14” 2024)
Back in the 1970s, a book called The Secret Life of Plants exploded onto The NY Times best seller ...
As the fields are stripped bare, a family faces what’s left after the season ends. “Harvest” folds weather, work and memory together in a quiet reckoning with rural life, inheritance ...
Stranded on the Adriatic with more dreams than money, a traveller in Bari learns what you can and can’t barter when everything runs out. A story of hunger, small hustles ...
A walk into the trees becomes something stranger: a pull towards the dark centre of the forest where old stories still breathe. Part myth, part psychological thriller, this tale follows ...
A boy, a wood, and a rule older than us. Folklore lifts its head in the trees and the path narrows to a single choice.
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A night in the ward where love and procedure meet. Grief, clipboards, and the soft hum of machines. What bureaucracy can’t name, the body supplies.
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A Korean entrepreneur hustles in the grey market—magnets, money, and the price of wanting. Deals are struck on balconies and in basements; chemistry and faith trade places. A story about ...
Anna and Reverend Gregory Green finally track down one of the lost travellers — but the reunion ends in a way neither of them ...
Two lovers stand among the trees as the mind tilts. Love, longing, and the small unspokens that undo us.
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An interviewer hikes into the Black Forest to meet Dopey’s mother. Which witch? Which story? The answers arrive in deadpan whispers—and an axe that glints at dusk.
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Instead of following the removals van, Nora made her own way out of the city to her new house. It was a long drive, but much of it familiar. After ...
A young Scottish football fan brings his French girlfriend to a match, hoping to bond — but obsession, masculinity, and cultural fault lines unravel everything.
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When a Scots student in Oxford realises he’s losing his language, a tiny creature becomes a bridge between worlds.
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In Part Two of George Cox’s mesmerising serial, the time traveller’s story takes a more unsettling turn. A photograph surfaces. A stranger disappears. And the past may not be as ...
