But I was not a general magpie. I was a dimensionally discontented magpie. Without regular access to flight, our perception comes unmoored from all four magnetic dimensions and three temporal dimensions, nearly bringing us down to dimensional par with humans.
The air is thick with billowing dust from hundreds of military transports and white pickup trucks—I’d forgotten the white trucks. The frightened crowd nearby falls silent as they pass. A contagion of despair drifts around us.
Mariam sat up straight, legs folded under her, and continued to fiddle with the armchair’s fraying upholstery. I waited silently as she took a second to master her tears. The marquee from the neighboring hotel provided
In the Market Cross Shopping Center, down the car-park stairwell, three young men shared a joint. Emilio Evans passed the spliff to Heboru Newman, sitting on the step below him. “Do you think Bertie Ahern molests
Five-and-a-half weeks before Toshihide Nakagawa dies, his son Yusaku takes him to see a rerun of the film Rocky at the Paradise Repertory Theatre in Burakuricho, Wakayama, a theater known for its continuous state of disrepair. Toshihide has
Editor’s Note: While most of the stories we receive and publish are between one thousand and five thousand words, today’s online feature presents four flash stories ranging from 844 to just 266 words. Inhabiting the rich
~ He said, You’re different from all the gringas. I know I am. Sometimes I sleep but sometimes I lay with my stomach gurgling and think about it: The difference between me and a gringa is
http://matthewkraj.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/RECALL_OF_DUTY_INTERVIEW_V1-720.mov Robert Lee, SGT (US Army Reserve). Recalled to active duty for current emergency plus six months. Report TDS Fort Riley, Kan. by 1300 hours, 6 July 1950 for retraining and overseas deployment. Oh-dark-thirty, 6
Photo credit: W. Greeson, USMC افغان “Yes, kaka zoi, I’m coming!” Hamid had been awake for an hour when he heard his cousin Kadir’s whistle. He had already revived the dying embers in the mud-brick
Sunset in Gaza City, August, 2023 | Photo by author Author’s Note: “Gaza by the Sea” was inspired by true events; the characters and plot line are fictional. The story was written in the summer of
It was a legal lynching which smears with blood a whole nation. By killing the Rosenbergs, you have quite simply tried to halt the progress of science by human sacrifice. Magic, witch-hunts, autos-da-fé, sacrifices—we are
