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Short Stories
On the Step of a Bookstore
by Alia Al Zaabi
Nara waded through the tranquil waves with her arms stretched out. The tip of her fingers glided on the surface of the water, barely breaking the barrier...Read more
Pleated Dreams
by Rubaiya Chowdhury
As she hummed an incoherent tune, Asiya glimpsed at the mirror. Looking past the grit and murky stains and innumerable bindis of variant shapes and vibrant colors stuck on it like some unnamed constellation, the sixteen year old looked at the reflected image...Read more
Poems
Sunflowers
by Ellynna Gomes
Before the flaxen wall, upon a mustard table,
this maize vase sits. Its lemon lips are
bursting with yellow sunflowers...Read more
Hopper's Nighthawks
by Trisha Saxena
For only 5 cents, you can get a cigar.
Strange, for such a pristine sight
at 2 in the morning...Read more
At the Fishmonger's
by Konstantina Spyropoulou
come come take the best fish of the country here
I have it, come ladies and gentlemen fresh
from the water, only in my stall will you
find the freshest fish, look good lady it smells
of sea see? Never mind, another time...Read more
SPRING 2020
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