“Go away!” I said. I looked at him, and although I knew he was different, he might still act like them. He’d have told me something and when I disagreed, ...
“It’s so nice to feel good,” she said, and touched herself while she sucked his cock. Strewn over the table were the implements of their game, which had been her ...
A charming lively plaza in el barrio de Gracia, behind a lone lit window on the third floor, a nineteen-year-old girl smokes a cigarette.
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It had never been his intention to travel via Rotterdam...
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Separated by what unites us, united by what separates us.”
Slogan of the “Archipiélagos” radio program (Miami, 1990s)
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Mona lay along the length of the sofa, painting concentric circles on her toes.
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Instead, she reaches for the dial and turns it. Rain falls. Continue Reading Oasis
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“Up to a billion birds die in collisions with glass each year in the United States.” Continue Reading They’re Just … Here
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Masuyo was married for fifty-eight years to the same man. She’d hated him for fifty-seven years. Continue Reading Taiki-chū no chinmoku (The Silence of Waiting)
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A world where we are not truly free to make our own stories, but must tell the stories we were taught to tell…
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She wants to fold back upon herself too, like petals…
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October 29, 2011. Somewhere along Kabul’s infamous Darulaman Road, a Taliban suicide bomber rams a vehicle packed with explosives into the side of an American military armoured bus.
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A man cradled a bag of birdseed in one arm—a sling supported the other—and approached a feeder. Blasts came from the neighboring home. Continue Reading A Million Birds ...
I killed an angel this morning.
I thought I was swiping away a mosquito; one whose wings did not buzz but rather sang, like perfectly tuned notes on a church organ. ...
I know it is strange, perhaps even unheard of, for an old woman like me to do this. Fingers will be pointed and tongues will be wagged till they nearly ...
Our supple, expressive Merlot boasts an inky colour and plush texture, layering blueberry and plum chewiness with hints of espresso, green olives, and warm pine needles. A tight finish of ...
Fucking had become like a production line. Pound the two together until they fit, even when they don’t belong together, and pound once more for good measure. Then in the ...
Andie’d had girlfriends before; she knew what to do. She worked out five times a week. Jaye loved her biceps and her deep, dark eyes. They were lab partners for ...
It hit her body like acid: first it blacked everything out, then it projected a stream of kaleidoscopic images before her eyes, it dilated her pupils and caused her limbs ...
You are sure this moment will go on forever, when you turn your gaze from the cleanest of skies to her prone, motionless body, although, on closer inspection, you see ...
