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Fiction Team

Fiction, LiteratureJune 5, 2015

Yamami

By Marcelino Freire

“I don’t want to die in the first world, I want to die lost on the horizon. Dazzled.” Story of the Week (June 5), by Marcelino Freire. Translated from Portuguese by Annie McDermott.

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Fiction, LiteratureMay 29, 2015

Escape

By Zuha Siddiqui

“I’ve also started playing The Quiet Game on my own a lot, especially at night.” Story of the Week (May 29), by Zuha Siddiqui.

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Fiction, LiteratureMay 22, 2015

Outside Solar dos Príncipes

By Marcelino Freire

“The slimy bastards come strolling in, poking around in our past, and we open up like little birds. Tell our stories like parrots. We sing, we roll over. We offer them our coca-cola.” Story of the Week (May 22), by Marcelino Freire. Translated from Portuguese by Annie McDermott.

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Fiction, LiteratureMay 15, 2015

Jomfru Ane Gade

By Julia Butschkow

“The last thing he could remember was the smell of the free-ranging animals. The smell, and the feeling that someone or something was lurking in wait for him in the dark.” Story of the Week (May 15), by Julia Butschkow. Translated from Danish by Peter Woltemade.

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Fiction, LiteratureMay 8, 2015

The Last Man of Epecuén

By Iain Robinson

“I’m here and no-one is going to move me. I’m here and the wind is here.” Story of the Week (May 8), by Iain Robinson.

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Roving Eye, SpotlightMay 1, 2015

Author of the Month: Zoltán Böszörményi

By Constance A. Dunn, Zoltán Böszörményi

“I could not give a clear resolution. I did not intend to do so. I did not consider myself a judge.” Zoltán Böszörményi, The Missing Slate’s Author of the Month for March, talks to Constance A. Dunn.

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Fiction, LiteratureMay 1, 2015

La hora

By Medardo Fraile

Original Spanish text of Medardo Fraile’s ‘Time’, our Story of the Week for the week ending May 1.

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Fiction, LiteratureMay 1, 2015

Time

By Medardo Fraile

“Tomorrow was today and yesterday…” Story of the Week (May 1), by Medardo Fraile. Translated from Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa.

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Roving Eye, SpotlightApril 24, 2015

Author of the Month: Mary de Sousa

By Casey Harding, Mary de Sousa

“It has taken me a long time to believe that writing for myself is a legitimate way to spend the day.” Mary de Sousa, The Missing Slate’s Author of the Month for February, talks to Casey Harding.

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Fiction, LiteratureApril 24, 2015

The Key

By Megan Kenley

” ‘Don’t open it.’ That’s what she gone and told me…” Story of the Week (April 24) by Megan Kenley.

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One last love letter...

April 24, 2021

It has taken us some time and patience to come to this decision. TMS would not have seen the success that it did without our readers and the tireless team that ran the magazine for the better part of eight years.

But… all good things must come to an end, especially when we look at the ever-expanding art and literary landscape in Pakistan, the country of the magazine’s birth.

We are amazed and proud of what the next generation of creators are working with, the themes they are featuring, and their inclusivity in the diversity of voices they are publishing. When TMS began, this was the world we envisioned…

Though the magazine has closed and our submissions shuttered, this website will remain open for the foreseeable future as an archive of the great work we published and the astounding collection of diverse voices we were privileged to feature.

If, however, someone is interested in picking up the baton, please email Maryam Piracha, the editor, at [email protected].

Farewell, fam! It’s been quite a ride.