He asked me about my addiction. I told him how it felt for me: like a gold chain trickling into my palm, smooth locks clicking into place.
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I dry flowers in the afternoons. I hang them up by their tails, let their heads droop down, plump and bulbous. Continue Reading Dry Flowers in the ...
“You look very nice.” The compliment felt awkward coming from his mouth, like the first one he’d given her, over-rehearsed and unconfident. Continue Reading The Birdhouse Cycle
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“Bunch of hooligans. Will you look at that? Broken glass and everything. This play park is for kiddies….” Continue Reading Glass in The Park
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The man took a long sip of whiskey, then he told them how it all started. It happened when he was about nine or ten years old, and he was ...
1. George stands on his rooftop terrace and looks down over the city. It is nearly time for his guests to arrive and he is feeling bullish. Every movement on ...
Translated by Marissa Skeels. My nights are long. A fixed-point camera facing the sea silently captures large, rolling waves. White spray blends with yellow light and smoothly vanishes. Relayed from ...
The thing is I’m actually the real deal, not one of those fakes or tricksters who prey on people, who take advantage of them and make a few dollars ...
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 ...
The orchidometer is a medical device for measuring testicles. It’s not very sophisticated, it’s actually just a string of oval beads, graduating from small to large, and painted bright jolly ...
A woman wearing a tinfoil mask held a sword that skewered five kids’ decapitated heads. “He got it right, Fourth Place.” Continue Reading Society for the Development of ...
A familiar shame sidles into the room as I grasp at my meagre store of Kannada and Tulu. My grandmother and I muddle our way through a multilingual conversation that’s ...
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. Continue Reading Alternative Geometries
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The boy would never know these memories. Watching his father’s face he saw the deep creases above his forehead, his narrowed eyes and his stubbled jaw, constantly chewing on something ...
I released the tube and let the blood seep into my hand, feeling my skin prick with warmth, awakening the euphoria. Leaving was a lone thing. Porphyria on her own. ...
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 ...
Smile. Everyone would agree that a smiling person is far more approachable than a gloomy and surly one. Continue Reading How to Seduce a Tech Bro in ...
I bet you never thought you’d be hearing this from a dead girl. Continue Reading The End Night
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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 ...
After the breakup, she couldn’t stop thinking about the spinach. Continue Reading Perpetual Spinach
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