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Wreckless Abandon
I arrived to find him sitting at the end of the bar. He was in his late thirties, a few years younger than me, cuter than his photos – a ...
Pounding
From behind the walls, always, I could smell it, women lighting fires for cooking and the aroma of toasting millet rose with the smoke. Continue Reading Pounding
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The Wrestlers
I still maintained the faint desire to have a go in the ring and it remained an unfulfilled ambition. Continue Reading The Wrestlers
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Mark Is Dead
The singer shuffles onto stage and it’s like seeing an old family friend who hasn’t been around for a while. His face is getting lined and his stage presence is ...
Wrathful Wiccan Wikipedians
How accurate is the information we receive via wikipedia, anyway? Continue Reading Wrathful Wiccan Wikipedians
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The Lady in the Boot
I once knew a woman like these three girls,” said Kamanga, “who think they are too good for some men. Continue Reading The Lady in the Boot
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On this Day
Hannah, we care about you and the memories you share here. We thought you’d like to look back on this photo of you from exactly five years ago today. ...
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Travel&Lifestyle
In Search of Kunufeh – a recent journey to Israel and Jordan
Now I am standing before this timelessly powerful monument, breathing the cold air in awe, remembering the House of David and the crusades, thinking that this is the source, this ...
A Tale of Two Rice Fields
In the end, perhaps it is these mementoes and relics, the ones that exist only to be bought and burnt up, that tell us the most about what we value. ...
Buyer’s Remorse
I can deal with the snoring. The problem is that we bought a house. Buying a sweater is hard enough Continue Reading Buyer’s Remorse
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On Discovering Authors
One beer down, but more drunk on the charming bookstore I’m sitting in, this stark difference between a world long gone (Lisbon in the 1930s) and a world very much ...
Riding the Canna-Bus
Our weed shop is located beside the local hospital. One might think that would be a good match since cannabis products promote health and healing too, but you can’t have ...
Four Days: A Provocation
So this is East Germany, 1972. We scramble for our passports, watching passengers exit under machine guns aimed at our train from atop nineteenth-century iron catwalks arching above the tracks. ...
The Dark I Know Well
It’s always one of two nightmares: I’m either trapped in a room with a many-faced man, or he’s chasing me into the street outside my childhood home. ...
Methods of Escape
The cop climbs in the back seat and introduces himself, Naim. Like many Afghans he has just one name. Continue Reading Methods of Escape
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Do not swallow that pill
You’ll drive around the roads of your hometown with their quaint names like River and Church, long black streets with a yellow middle pulling you in and spitting you out ...
The Perils
I don’t remember the kid’s name; the only impression he made on me was his face: scabbed over, crusted with dried blood all across his chin. Continue ...
Chasing Sakura: 10. School
We had, however, not experienced a moment’s error in Japan’s transport schedules – so far. Continue Reading Chasing Sakura: 10. School
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How are you fine thank you
“Η καρδιά. Yi kardiá. Heart.”
“Η βάρκα. Yi várka. Boat.”
“Η χώρα. Yi hóra. Country.” Continue Reading How are you fine thank you
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Ode to our open-minded, modern young men
Forgive them, for they like their women dead Continue Reading Ode to our open-minded, modern young men
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