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Pet Cemetery
It’s a pet (cemetery) sematary and there are two more like this in Kyiv.
Intermission Syria
“God bless the Free Syrian Army!” a boy cries on an overcast, frigid February afternoon, his breath as gray as his surroundings, “God bless the Free Syrian Army!”
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Reading the Real Housewives of New Jersey, Seasons 1–8
An essay about the extensive literary output of the cast members of The Real Housewives of New Jersey. Collectively, these texts serve as a valuable document of the experiences of ...
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Learning Together
An autobiographical essay, that moves between past and present, told by a young woman who describes the aftermath of the 29th of November 2019 stabbing of two people at a ...
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High Priestesses
A personal memoir about a young woman who finds herself depressed at a hen party.
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Beneath the Hawthorn Tree
On the surface all is peaceful. All is tidy and cared for. But there is more here than that you can see. There are things that are hidden.
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Sluts on Saturn
I had an affair with the star’s husband. She was having an affair with the husband of someone who didn’t know. Fortunately for the star, hypocrisy is no more a ...
Feminist dating for women in their forties
I’m not sure what I want out of dating and my inner feminist is nervous.
Locking, Unlocking: A Comparative Review of Olja Savičević’s Singer in the Night & Sophie van Llewyn’s Bottled Goods
This is a story about love, but it is also about making choices. Savičević’s disjointed narrative is, at times, challenging, but it becomes evident that this is exactly the author’s ...
Rock of Ages
All it takes is a quick stroll around central London to demonstrate that its history is etched in stone.
Amusing Myself in the Still of the Night
Art by Kotaro Satsuki
Translated by Marissa Skeels.
My nights are long.
A fixed-point camera facing the sea silently captures large, rolling waves. White ...
Desire Is Full of Endless Distances
What she could have asked me might have been whether I thought I was good enough to marry someone else, and perhaps our conversation could have yielded something different. I ...
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Why Italians are dancing on balconies during the Covid-19 emergency
The Covid-19 emergency has pushed Italian communities – as well as the rest of the world – to start dancing and singing on balconies. While the victims are tragically increasing, ...
Alternative Geometries
Let any number of women be represented as points in space-time and you will always be able to find a surface that connects them.
The Irish Tendency
The sun should never rise for me again. I am a worthless piece of dung whose ambition is not to live, but to wither away. I could have served, but ...
Moving through Mozambique
Towards the end of our time in Mozambique, my wife and I had arranged to meet a friend in Metangula, a small strip of a town on the shores of ...
One Day I’ll Ask the President A Question
“We see what happens when you persecute people. They fold into themselves…”
—Mahershala Ali, 2017 SAG Awards Acceptance Speech
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In Need of Repair
As James unlocked his door to reveal the inside of his apartment, I considered making up some excuse to leave, but when the door opened, I followed him inside.
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Breaking Bread with the Pomaks
With each passing kilometre along the E55, my hopes for picturesque
Pomak villages nestled in the foothills of the Rhodope Mountains became snarled
up in the plastic debris that ...
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Fire and Smoke
Then I stood and waited, silent, with my arms clasped behind me…I knew them by their smell, or the way they walked, or the cadence of their voice.