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FICTION

The Great Patriotic Parade – Matheus Borges

Matheus Borges was born in Porto Alegre, southern Brazil. His fiction has been published in a number of magazines, both Brazilian (Subversa, Gueto) and international (Waccamaw, Fiction International, Scoundrel Time), as well as anthologies...

No Man’s Land – Mojaffor Hossain

Mojaffor Hossain is a notable fiction writer of contemporary Bangla literature. His signature style is using native realities as his settings, and giving them magic-realistic or surrealistic colours. The story is translated from the Bengali by Shamita Das Dasgupta...

Nevermore – Tara Thiel

Tara Thiel is a Visual Artist pursuing a Master’s in Creative Writing & Literature. Her work has been published in anthologies and periodicals including Twyckenham Notes, Variant Literature, Inkwell Journal, NOVUS Literary Arts and others...

Unregistered – Giuseppe Pensabene Perez

Giuseppe Pensabene PerezΒ  was born in Italy in 1984, is a Pisces, a linguist, a tobacco smoker and polyglot. A voracious, omnivorous reader. His favorite authors are Steven King and Roberto BolaΓ±o...

The Shawl – Ansar Uddin

Ansar Uddin is from West Bengal, India. His connection with farming and farm labor runs deep. He has five collection of short stories and three novels to his name thus far. Translated from the Bengali by Bishnupriya Chowdhuri...

If – Allison Whittenberg

Allison WhittenbergΒ is a Philadelphia native and her novels include Sweet Thang,Β Hollywood and Maine,Β Life is Fine,Β TutoredΒ andΒ The Sane Asylum.Β ...

The Split – Gillian Wills

Gillian Wills is an author and arts writer from Brisbane, Australia. Her memoir Elvis and Me: How a world-weary musician and a broken racehorse rescued each other was published in 2016...

Transitory Space, Brooklyn, NYC – Leah Oates

Transitory Space photographs are, in essence, artifacts found and formed at the ambiguous territory where the human consciousness interacts with space that appears forever present yet keeps morphing through the ungraspable, corridor of time...

Are Those Feathers Real? – J. T. Townley

J.T. Townley has published in Harvard Review,Β The Kenyon Review, The Three penny Review, and many other magazines and journals. His stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize (three times) and the Best of the Net Award...