The Wines of the Shakespeare Estate
“In wine there is truth…” Zsolt Láng’s ‘short story written in the form of wine labels’, translated from Hungarian by Erika Mihálycsa.
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Caitlin and Becky
“The sun rises and I suddenly wish I were somebody who could hurl a whiskey bottle against a wall.” Story of the Week (July 18), by Andrew Tobolowsky.
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“As monsoon season progressed into autumn and the newspapers started giving daily roundups of the death tolls, dengue dominated the lives and conversation of all Lahoris…” Story of the Week (July 11), by Naureen Amjad.
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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.
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A Night in Casablanca
“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.
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Hair, cuts
“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.
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João De Vivre
“João was of the rarified First World, but no stranger to its analog. To see it up close was invigorating—the knowledge that one would be soon returning to a more pleasant place made it so.” Story of the Week (June 6), by Jon Shifrin.
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Roses and Daffodils
“I wiped the dried blood off the dog tag I’d unclipped from his neck, placed it in the hat and slid it carefully into the duffel bag…” Story of the Week (May 30), by Sarka Kocicka.
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The Day of the Vulture
“His jealousy was aroused when an acquaintance hinted that she might be carrying on with a young man from Ricchwi, a village someway off. Thaan bullied and beat her when she returned.” Story of the Week (May 23), by Raj Sharma.
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Bamboo
“It was the night the pig mother ate her litter. The piglets screamed like human babies, hoarse and shrill.” Story of the Week (May 16), by Eliza Calvin.
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