“Once more we depress the enter key, and with a distant rumble the stacks begin again their gargantuan deck-shuffling, knocking up against each other with cataclysmic thunder. The suspense is awful. Then all falls silent.” Story of the Week (February 6), by Bryan Patrick Young.
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“He shuffled into the bare, cold room, his long, black coat reaching his ankles, ankles tied by chains, hands tied by ropes behind his back.” Story of the Week (January 30), by Kim Farleigh.
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“The picture paints itself again and again… a room, a floor, a window. A table, a chair. Squares of sunshine on the floor. An indeterminable potted plant on the windowsill.” Story of the Week (January 23), by Adda Djørup. Translated from Danish by Peter Woltemade.
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“Tourists flocked to these shores once, but they made their treks back home months ago. They relished the warm days, decorated them with striped umbrellas, lemonade stands and dips in the restless sea.” Story of the Week (January 16), by Lilian Vercauteren.
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“A young man approaches me… He would like to show me his home, his wife and his children. He pushes the tarp to the side, and I look into their 32-square foot residence.” Peder Frederik Jensen reports from the Guiwa refugee camp. Translated from Danish by K.E. Semmel.
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“There is actually nothing glamorous in being a writer or an artist, sorry.” Sébastien Doubinsky, The Missing Slate’s Author of the Month, in conversation with Casey Harding.
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“Salomonsen felt like saying: “I’m only forty-three years old, dammit! I’m not an old man!†But he remembered immediately that he was going to die soon and that it wasn’t particularly a sign of youthfulness.” Story of the Week (December 31), by Sébastien Doubinsky. Translated from French by the author.
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“The western winds overwhelmed me, blew my garage open, sucked my tuba into the road, dragged it down the pebbly pavement. Sparks flew from its brass. The wind drove the sparks deep into the chaparral.” Story of the Week (December 19), by Mitchell Krockmalnik Grabois.
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“Soon, an explosion tears my wife’s head into bloody pieces of meat – and then construction begins. I feel tired…” Story of the Week (December 12), by Zoltán Komor.
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“For the next ten years, tormented by such anxiety that I made every trip as short as I could, I was not to leave the house more than fifteen times.” Story of the Week (December 5), by Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud. Translated from French by Edward Gauvin.
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