Stories
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Spring
Robert Walser Issue No. 31Once last spring, shortly before lunch and setting off for town, I stood halfway up the mountain where one enjoys a beautiful view of the country. The damp earth was fragrant with spring; I had… Read More »
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Remember This
Robert Walser Issue No. 31Remember how you rejoiced at the sweet, fresh green spring, how enchanted you were by the silver-white, sky-blue lake, how you greeted the mountains, how you found everything beautiful that encountered you and you encountered,… Read More »
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Drums of Zaragoza
Joe Dunthorne Issue No. 31We practiced in the attic of her father’s orthodontic surgery. Stacked neatly against the back wall were hundreds of small white boxes each containing chalky casts of patients’ teeth. Orthodontistry is a good source for… Read More »
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The Precious One
Robert Walser Issue No. 31Yes, this delicate one led a precious existence. I don’t doubt this for a moment because I understand him, and this being the case, my pen hardly dares to describe or, let’s say, sketch the… Read More »
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People Are Streinz
Christos Ikonomou Issue No. 30Seven months without a single dream. Seven whole months. The twenty-first of May was the last time I had a dream. I remember because it was also the last time it rained around here…. Read More »
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The Locked Room
Ottessa Moshfegh Issue No. 30Takashi dressed in long black rags, ripped fishnet stockings, and big black boots with long loose laces that splatted at the floor when he walked. He smelled strongly of old sweat and cigarette smoke, and… Read More »
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The Sunstroke
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya Issue No. 30What is a vacation by the sea, if not a return to eternal youth? Every summer, land-locked Muscovites flock to the Black Sea to face rowdy crowds, suspect food, infernal partying and drinking, horrible beach… Read More »
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From “All the Houses”
Karen Olsson Issue No. 29Often when I tell people I grew up in Washington, D.C., they ask me if I grew up in the city proper or in the suburbs. “In the city,” I tell them, though I’ve felt… Read More »