Here, translation unlocks stories from languages afar, people unknown yet familiar in voices that stun you and resonate with you. Here is your book of world stories

 

FICTION

The Lie of the First Family – Peter Ngila Njeri

Peter Ngila Njeri is a failed journalist and the co-author (with Isabell Kempf) of Changing the World While Changing Diapers. Peter is currently admiring yet another draft of The Visitation of Room Seventeen, his debut full-length novel manuscript...

Cat-eyed Poet – Cecilia RodrΓ­guez MilanΓ©s/ SohiniΒ Ghose

Young, shy, cat-eyelined wannabe poet showed up to my office hours in search of a mentor...

A Self-Portrait of Sancho Panza – Mahdi Ahmadian

Mahdi Ahmadian his from Urmia, a city in north-western Iran. His novella, When We All Died, has been published in Iran by Rowzaneh Nashr. His writing has appeared in Typehouse Literary Magazine, Lunch Ticket and Forum for World Literature Studies...

We The People – Sunil Abhiman Awachar/Jay Sagathia/Tapas K Ray

Hungry craters bleed magma In the still air of night...

The Birthday – Mia Lecomte

Mia Lecomte is an Italian poet and writer of French origin. Author of many publications, her works have been translated into several languages...

Li’l Scummy – Tilottoma Mojumdar

Tilottoma Mojumdar is an Indian Bengali novelist, short story writer, poet, lyricist, and essayist. Her published books include Vasudhārā, Ektara: Strains of a Lonesome String, Rri among others...

Scammer – Thomas Weedman

Thomas Weedman has been a seminarian, a forklift operator, barista, and a professional gambler. His short stories have appeared in the Acorn Review, TheWriteLaunch,Β  The Paragon Journal, The Penman Review, Marathon Literary Review, Limited Experience Journal, Constellations, Bridge Eight, and forthcoming at SoFloPoJo, DLG Publishing, Running Wild Press, and Drunk Monkeys...

Contagion – Ajay Navaria

Ajay Navaria is the author of two collections of short stories in Hindi,Β Patkatha aur Anya KahaniyanΒ (2006) andΒ Yes SirΒ (2012), and a novel,Β Udhar ke LogΒ (2008). He has been associated with the premier Hindi literary journal,Β Hans...

. (Full Stop) – Soham Guha

Soham Guha writes in his mother tongue, Bengali, and English as well. His works were published inΒ Kalpabiswa.com,Β Scroll.in, Matti Braun'sΒ Monologue, andΒ Mohs 5.5: MegastructureΒ Anthology and Mithila Review. This story is translated from the Bengali by Ranjita Chattopadhyaya...