Totonha
“The way I see it, real wisdom is knowing how to read someone’s face. Right up nose to nose with whoever it is.” Story of the Week (June 19), by Marcelino Freire. Translated from Portuguese by Annie McDermott.
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You and I: A Short Story in Fragments
“Many people will die. Someone’s mother, someone’s father and someone else’s child. They will be mourned.” Story of the Week (June 12), by Nafiza Azad.
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Yamami
“I don’t want to die in the first world, I want to die lost on the horizon. Dazzled.” Story of the Week (June 5), by Marcelino Freire. Translated from Portuguese by Annie McDermott.
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Escape
“I’ve also started playing The Quiet Game on my own a lot, especially at night.” Story of the Week (May 29), by Zuha Siddiqui.
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Outside Solar dos PrÃncipes
“The slimy bastards come strolling in, poking around in our past, and we open up like little birds. Tell our stories like parrots. We sing, we roll over. We offer them our coca-cola.” Story of the Week (May 22), by Marcelino Freire. Translated from Portuguese by Annie McDermott.
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Jomfru Ane Gade
“The last thing he could remember was the smell of the free-ranging animals. The smell, and the feeling that someone or something was lurking in wait for him in the dark.” Story of the Week (May 15), by Julia Butschkow. Translated from Danish by Peter Woltemade.
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The Last Man of Epecuén
“I’m here and no-one is going to move me. I’m here and the wind is here.” Story of the Week (May 8), by Iain Robinson.
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La hora
Original Spanish text of Medardo Fraile’s ‘Time’, our Story of the Week for the week ending May 1.
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Time
“Tomorrow was today and yesterday…” Story of the Week (May 1), by Medardo Fraile. Translated from Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa.
Read MoreThe Key
” ‘Don’t open it.’ That’s what she gone and told me…” Story of the Week (April 24) by Megan Kenley.
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