He Will Sing to You
“Everyone has to find something, señora… I carry birds. Which one do you like?” Story of the Week (April 17) by Michael McGuire.
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Raag Marwa
“There is no harmony, no melody, no symphony. Only this. And now. This empty moment of forever.” Story of the Week (April 10), by Farah Ahamed.
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A Nyomozas
Original Hungarian text of Zoltán Böszörményi’s ‘The Investigation’.
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The Investigation
“Promised me the world, he wanted me so bad. Yulish, you’re going to have a good life with me, that’s what he said. You don’t need the village. You’re going to like it better in the mountains, as long as the Good Lord keeps me in good health. I make enough money to raise ten kids. Now you see, it’s come to nothing.” Story of the Week (March 27), by Zoltán Böszörményi. Translated from Hungarian by Paul Sohar.
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Memories of Mission Valley
“Mission Valley School, despite the name, wasn’t a relic of the Raj. The neo-Gothic brick buildings of our small campus did remind one of a different era, but the British missionaries—for whose children the school had been originally established—had decamped long ago…” Story of the Week (March 20), by Murali Kamma.
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Greatest of These
“It was a picture of St. Christopher hanging above two portraits of the children, the same two portraits as those in the basement. He said he had hung it there to remind himself that he wasn’t an evil person.” Story of the Week (March 13), by Henriette Houth. Translated from Danish by Mark Mussari.
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This Will Kill You
“He opens his eyes when I come in. “Are you here, my girl,” he says and smiles weakly. I sit down on the bed and gently take his hand between mine…” Story of the Week (March 6), by Maja Elverkilde. Translated from Danish by Peter Woltemade.
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The Chair
“It was there every morning… set before the sea as if ready to serve. A cane chair—stiff, high-backed, all the more out of place for how intact it looked.” Story of the Week (February 27), by Jean Muno. Translated from French by Edward Gauvin.
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Lucky
“And now, as I sat on my couch unable to move, I understood the odds. I understood that anybody could be the lucky one out of a billion and instead of feeling empowered, I was horrified.” Story of the Week (February 20), by Josh Rank.
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Plumpy Nut
“There were men everywhere telling people that disasters don’t just happen, especially during Ramzan. “You people believe this is geology. They know it is God,†a doctor told me.” Story of the Week (February 13), by Mary de Sousa.
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