A Life
“We begin with a girl and end with an old woman.” Story of the Week (August 7), by Robert Earle.
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The Swim Club
“My group was Gym ‘n’ Swim, a coed skills development group emphasizing stroke work, aquatic first aid and Christian standards of living.” Story of the Week (July 31), by David Hauptschein.
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Dorje Phagmo
“I was still almost a child, fourteen years old, when the Red Guards came to Tibet in 1961.” Story of the Week (July 24), by June Calender.
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Battle of the Brothers
“How the sky matured like plums, how silence lay between them like a bed…” Story of the Week (July 17), by Rushda Rafeek.
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Putin’s Soul
“I take Putin’s soul by the hand and seat him in my little red wagon, and I start to pull him back to my house.” Story of the Week (July 10), by Ambika Thompson.
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The Tragicomedy of Mefito and Tentorea
“Tentorea runs home crying. Mefito stays where he is, horribly anguished. A beautiful love story can’t just go down the tubes on account of a hypersensitive nose and ears.” Story of the Week (July 3), by Pablo MartÃn Sánchez. Translated from Spanish by Jeff Diteman.
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Martian Photos
“See the exposed wall over there—the cracks in the plaster are shaped like an agave plant.” Story of the Week (June 26), by Geoffrey Aronson.
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Totonha
“The way I see it, real wisdom is knowing how to read someone’s face. Right up nose to nose with whoever it is.” Story of the Week (June 19), by Marcelino Freire. Translated from Portuguese by Annie McDermott.
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You and I: A Short Story in Fragments
“Many people will die. Someone’s mother, someone’s father and someone else’s child. They will be mourned.” Story of the Week (June 12), by Nafiza Azad.
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Author of the Month: Farah Ahamed
“Fiction writers need, aside from an imagination and self-discipline, a strong sense of self-belief.” Farah Ahamed, The Missing Slate’s Author of the Month for April, talks to Cecilia Greco.
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