Us? We are dry bread in the mouth, rough on the tongue. Our imperfect faces are hidden away behind soot-stained xanbirs of wooly cloth that used to be white as ...
Living with loss.
About Melanie ...
Edgar Degas. Study of a Ballet Dancer, ca. 1873. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
“Us, them, none of it matters. What matters is that you express yourselves, that you ...
She grows up with apple pie and apple crumble and apple snow and cousins who threaten to lock her in the coolroom. She grows up with a father who sneers ...
Tragedy and loss.
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A brother reveals his secret.
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A connection between strangers.
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Grief and ruminating on what could have been said.
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Adrien Majewski. Effluvia from a Hand Resting on a Photographic Plate, 1898–99. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
There’s a wrinkle in his hand that looks like the ...
Photo by Jo Sau.
The one time a man asks for her knickers, he says panties. This is no American either. This is a man from Sunderland who, when he speaks, ...
A strangely resonant story of teenage love, betrayal and friendship in the time of the Cold War.
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Attributed to William Notman. Still Life with Books, 1870s–80s. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
214 – Theodicy
God is good. Bad things happen. Both of these things can ...
Rimac. Fish, 1000–1476. Cotton, slit tapestry weave with eccentric wefts.Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago; Kate S. Buckingham Endowment.
You fail to see it coming. It’s always zombie humans ...
Photo by Dave Winer
a set somewhere hidden in Hollywood
kept out of sight not because the filming was a flop no because it worked out only too well and has somehow ...
On finding oneself
About Rituparna ...
A death precipitates the investigation into an urban legend
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After an accident, a girl reflects on her choices
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An Asian American family ponders the meaning of the American flag
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History is happening
About ...
Catherine McNamara talks to Bryan Okwesili about flash fiction and the writing life
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