Atop Land, Under Sea
” ‘But where will we land? Are we going to die?!” wailed Miki. She paused, then whispered: “Someone needs to be the passengers.’ ” Story of the Week (March 7), by Justin YW Lau.
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Aquamarine
“She had a thousand questions she would like to ask: what he did, if he had children, where he had studied, where he lived. She wanted to be able to place him in the world, to know who he was.” Story of the Week (February 26), by Teolinda Gersão. Translated from Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa.
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Memento Mori
“I am a new addict to lipstick. I wear dark shades that can’t be hidden. I wear shades of red.” Story of the Week (February 19), by Manjiri Indurkar.
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DÃa De Los Muertos
“We spend all day making pan de muerto. We bake the sweet bread to look like a skull. I knead my two thumbs in the skull to make little eye-sockets.” Story of the Week (February 12), by Eliot Hudson.
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Eternal Life
“The woman walks into the living room. She acts as if everything is normal, but I can see how she’s looking around, taking it all in.” Story of the Week (February 5), by Henriette Houth. Translated from Danish by Mark Mussari.
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Author of the Month: Zino Asalor
“What others see of us and vice versa is often the result of a great and ongoing internal struggle to appear consistent.” Zino Asalor, our December Author of the Month, talks to Haseeb Ali Chishti.
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The Lives of Others
“Manik knew what it was like to be young and hopeful.” Story of the Week (January 28), by Nadia Kabir Barb.
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The Writer Formerly Known as Ozimede
“To know the name of a thing is to have a form of control over that thing.” Story of the Week (January 8), by Ozimede Sunny Ekhalume.
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Author of the Month: Michal Hvorecký
“My country is turning into a police state and nobody cares, people just continue with their Christmas shopping…” Michal Hvorecký, our Author of the Month for November, talks to Casey Harding.
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Rebecca
“He could be sentimental, yet in the same breath a ruthless cynic; an idealist with little patience for impractical dreams…” Story of the Week (December 18), by Zino Asalor.
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