
A Lovely Boy
“There is a lovely beach in a lovely town. You stand on the shore and see that the water is deep and dark so it impossible to know what lies beneath…” First Friday flash fiction, by Kiren Valjee.
Read More“There is a lovely beach in a lovely town. You stand on the shore and see that the water is deep and dark so it impossible to know what lies beneath…” First Friday flash fiction, by Kiren Valjee.
Read More“How could you not be captivated/ by her bohemian chic/ and dirty bare feet,/ voice chanting with sounds/ borrowed from our unrecorded past.” Poem of the Week (July 1), by Richard King Perkins II.
Read More“…only/ the blood on the moonlit sand/ black and soaking: the laughter/ of a lion’s ribcage left.” Weekend poem, by Isaac Nowell.
Read More“You could barely view the sea under the night’s darkness and heavy rain. Cars would careen around the road uncontrollably because their drivers were too drunk…” Story of the Week (June 27), by Muhammad Zafzaf. Translated from Arabic by Mohammed Albakry.
Read More“…you wandering in search of light/ Carrying a piece of sky on your broad shoulders,/ Fill my evening of breaths and oblivions/ With voices…” Poem of the Week (June 24), by Alisa Velaj. Translated from Albanian by Ukë Buçpapaj.
Read More“Lead me not into unforced errors./ Let me not be despatched into oblivion/ By a fresh-faced opponent—unseeded, unknown…” Shanta Acharya marks the start of Wimbledon 2014 with a tennis player’s prayer.
Read More“Evenings, on the way from primary school,/ I saw her, dressed in cowgirl boots and cutoffs,/ blouse opened on a barstool outside The Cool Spot…” By Ishion Hutchinson.
Read MoreAn introduction to the Caribbean writers’ feature By John Robert Lee “I accept this archipelago of the Americas.†~ Derek Walcott (‘The Muse of History’)…
Read More“I became obsessed with hair. I found it on everyone… worst of all was the pubic hair I found on large old women in swimming pool showers – beads of water dripping from the long dank curtains of hair that lay clapped to their thighs.” Story of the Week (June 13), by Fiona Inglis.
Read More“Ekalavya, naïve disciple,/ Your guru preyed on your thumb/ With the eyes of a skillful vulture…” Poem of the Week (June 10), by Manash Bhattacharjee.
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