poem by P.C. Scheponik
Back to the Dream I wonder if Kent State, If Woodstock, if Steinman’s bra-burning revolution ever happened.
“It gives me so much joy to translate poetry”
[interview with Monica Manolachi] by Ines Vig How do you perceive the role and significance of working as a literary translator in your career? I have translated literature ever since I graduated from the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature, University of Bucharest, almost two decades ago. It has shaped me both as a researcher […]
The Day I Remembered My Soul
by Nolo Segundo When I was 24, I killed myself. I put it that bluntly because it was not an attempted suicide, a cry for help, but a decision to self-murder. Yes, it was a desperate act, a last attempt to escape what my mind feared as lifetime imprisonment in a mental asylum [they still […]
Drinks
by Dominik Slusarczyk I The gin tastes old. I down it anyway. I’ve got to get drunk: the drinks in the club will be incredibly expensive and we’re going to be there until four in the morning. If I drink lots now I won’t need to buy any drinks for the first […]
poems by Allison Whittenberg
Sustainable eating eggshells for calcium –
The Rascal King and Cai the Bunny
[A Tale] by Daniel de Culla This Rascal King was a king highly esteemed and admired by his people: Women admired him because he left every female who danced with him pregnant. As it could not be otherwise, to the woman who was flirting with him, he said:
Looking for Bigfoot
by Douglas Young Dudley and Zillah DuBose had lived full-time in their old mountain cabin since retiring two years before. During their first year there, they renovated and expanded the place considerably, doing much of the work themselves. Pleased with the results, Zillah looked forward to a far more relaxing life defined by hikes […]
The Doctor Rato Ching And The Halloween.
by Rubem Didini Filho We are connected to nature in a vast and intricate network, where every occurrence is woven together, and no one can escape its influence. The spirit of Halloween, too, is a thread in this intricate tapestry, and it would weave its story with the enigmatic Doctor Rato Ching. Throughout the history […]
About The Last Place You’ll Live Retirement Home
by Ron Merkin The name should have warned him. Fifty six residents had signed a petition to change their title from its original “East View Senior Living Home”. Strange to make an understatement. But Professor Milcowitz needed the money. So as twelve people sat around a table in the home’s library he launched […]
poems by Sorana Maria Ilie
(Lecturi potrivite/recomandate de Alexandra) The Sun and the Moon In the canvas of the cosmos, a love profound, Sun and Moon, in orbits, forever bound. Yet, a curse cast by the universe’s decree, Tore them apart, their love never to see.