Alice
“Immortality is perfection. Perfection is possible only for those without consciousness or with infinite consciousness.” By Mehreen Fatima Ashfaq, from The Missing Slate’s fiction workshop.
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To the West Ice
“This will be her first ever voyage to the West Ice… Inexperienced. Alone…”
Story of the Week (March 3), by Tor Even Svanes. Translated from Norwegian by Rosie Hedger.
How to Be Happy in Warsaw
“In the afternoon, Dona Oliva found herself all but alone on deck, reclining in one of the loungers.” Story of the Week (February 24), by Veronica Stigger. Translated from the Portuguese by Zoë Perry.
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Mushroom Weather
“He’d been deceived, like some fool, some dimwit ignorant of the wiles of pickpockets!” Story of the Week (February 17), by Agustina Bessa-LuÃs. Translated from the Portuguese by Victor Meadowcroft and Margaret Jull Costa.
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Twenty Steps
“God doesn’t need a reason to throw someone down these twenty hard steps. That’s what makes him God.” Story of the Week (February 10), by Hélia Correia. Translated from the Portuguese by Annie McDermott.
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The Keyboards
“As a child, she had prayed for Mozart.” Story of the Week (January 27), by Teolinda Gersão. Selected and translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa.
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The Child That I Was Not
“I could have sworn the man was Papa, except he was lying on the road, dead…”
Story of the Week (January 13), by Uzoamaka Doris Aniunoh. Selected by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Drip
“I remember Rukie telling a group of girls that God is deeply sad whenever we go against his word and give in to the flesh, and I wonder how anybody could feel that way when there is an urgent thread of desire pushing itself out of a body…”
Story of the Week (January 6), by Ama Asantewa Diaka. Selected by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Foundling
“The couple embraced and stood silent for a moment, listening to the patter of the raindrops outside.” Story of the Week (December 23), by Charles Edward Brooks.
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Shark
“An unholy stench announced the rumors were true. Something extraordinary had found its way to the dock at Karachi Fish Harbor.” Story of the Week (December 16), by M. Reza Pirbhai.
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