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Fiction Team

Fiction, LiteratureAugust 5, 2016

Boots

By DC Diamondopolous

“For breakfast, she ate a donut and washed it down with rum.” Story of the Week (August 5), by DC Diamondopolous.

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Fiction, LiteratureJuly 29, 2016

Stark White

By Awais Khan

“There is a delicious irony to life, giving her a child at forty and then robbing her of the pleasure of his company so soon.” Story of the Week (July 29), by Awais Khan.

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Fiction, LiteratureJuly 23, 2016

If It Happens

By Gaurav Deka

“All of us want to move, to drift, and to change. To reach somewhere, we do not know.” Story of the Week (July 23), by Gaurav Deka.

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Fiction, LiteratureJuly 16, 2016

Ben Foster: A Jail Story

By David Sanchez

“In here, if you’re white and you have blonde hair your nickname is Bieber.” Story of the Week (July 15), by David Sanchez.

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Roving Eye, SpotlightJuly 15, 2016

Author of the Month: Nnamdi Oguike

By Casey Harding, Nnamdi Oguike

“Quite frankly, there are times when I hear or play a good piece of music or sing a song and wish I could write a story as good as the music.” Nnamdi Oguike, our March Author of the Month, talks to Casey Harding.

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Fiction, LiteratureJuly 9, 2016

I No Longer Fear the Deep

By Adeoye Amurawaiye

“And Walter, who had never adored the idea of suspense, even in his youth, broke the mute spell between them.” Story of the Week (July 8), by Adeoye Amurawaiye.

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Fiction, LiteratureJuly 1, 2016

Father Chuy of the Sagrada Familia

By April Vázquez

“The boy had known resignation. He’d eaten and breathed it and sweated it from his pores for as long as he could remember.” Story of the Week (July 1), by April Vázquez.

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Fiction, LiteratureJune 24, 2016

Hunt 1947

By Erika Mihálycsa, Zsuzsa Selyem

“A nightmare that will end well. László Luka was hoping for this.” Story of the Week (June 24), by Zsuzsa Selyem. Translated from Hungarian by Erika Mihálycsa.

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Fiction, LiteratureJune 24, 2016

Vadászat 1947

By Zsuzsa Selyem

Original Hungarian text of Zsuzsa Selyem’s ‘Hunt 1947’.

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Fiction, LiteratureJune 17, 2016

The Familiar Stranger

By Sally Bolton, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen

“At that moment I understood why the man who I had left behind was not a stranger.” Story of the Week (June 17), by Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen. Translated from Portuguese by Sally Bolton.

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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.