Fiction

A GARDEN ON THE ROOF By Patty Somlo The tall, very dark-skinned man didn’t say a word, as Katherine Foster led him and the woman from the refugee agency through the flat. Moderately tall herself and...

A PALIMPSESTBy Jim Naremore      Files. Or, more directly, filing cabinets.     Green, brown and different shades of grey. Battered, scratched, dented, their hardware tarnished. Some Kafkaesque bureaucratic dystopian fantasy: brown veneer second-hand conference table, a...

PORTRAITS OF THE DEADBy John Nicholl Chapter 1 2:20 A.M. Saturday, 2 May 1998Emma didn’t know how long he hid, silent and unmoving, in the large Victorian wardrobe to the side of her single bed. She...

THE KILLING OF JOHN, JOHN, AND JOHNBy Elizabeth O’Neill Chapter One - LOSS OF A LEGEND   Willie Goodwillie sat in his nightwatchman’s hut, in the middle of a graveyard.  He could be described asrather rotund, well...

DANVERS - The ReckoningBy Rebecca McNuttRebecca Maye McNutt was born in Nova Scotia, Canada in 1998, after which she moved to Ontario and New Brunswick for a number of years. The first books she...

The Black Coat                                                                      A short story by Mehreen Ahmed One black, wintry night, Piccolo -Xavier bumped into someone while crossing the boulevard Peripherique. Once he was across, the person on the receiving end was not visible anymore and it...

TRUTH ACCORDING TO MICHAELA novel by Stevan V. Nikolic Chapter Seven - The Second American Woman        That Wednesday at the regular House Meeting attended by all students and staff, the Director announced that Michael was...

Sat Superest by John Young The car stopped at the gate, and the two male occupants stared ahead—as though instead of a mere conjoined unit of hinged wood, the obstacle were some farmyard sinkhole newly visible...

OS PÁSSAROS  Por Célia Correia Loureiro(excerto) trinta e cincoE cogitar que as juras da Manuela – aquele amontoado de desejo tão precoce de se agrilhoar a alguém –, eram genuínas. E logo em relação a...

O MARINHEIROde Fernando PessoaDrama estático em um quadro a Carlos Franco. Um quarto que é sem duvida num castello antigo. Do quarto vê-se que é circular. Ao centro ergue-se, sobre uma eça, um caixão com uma...