VERY SHORT STORIES
Miriam Bonetti – Central coffee bar
The Central was the historical bar in town, situated like a breach in the walls that surrounded the square along with an agonizing greengrocer’s...
Mattia Di Carlo – Bass Riff
Some of my new neighbors are listening to Talking Heads. Who the hell is pumping up David Byrne & co. at ten in the...
SHORT STORIES
Antonia Buizza – Angela
“Angela, don’t run: you know that after you are going to have a sore throat”.“Ok, mum, I’m coming”.Mother and daughter went back...
POPULAR
Rae Armantrout – With
It’s well
that things should stir
inconsequentially
around me
like this
patina of shadow,
flicker, whisper,
so that
I can be still.
*
I write things down
to show others
later
or to show myself
that I am...
CLASSICS
Gertrude Stein – Johnny Grey
What did he say. I was disagreeing with him.
He said he didn't have it by...
Kate Chopin – Désirée’s Baby
As the day was pleasant, Madame Valmondé drove over to L’Abri to see Désirée and...
T. S. Eliot – Eeldrop and Appleplex
I
Eeldrop and Appleplex rented two small rooms in a disreputable part of town. Here they...
James Baldwin – The Blind Men and the Elephant
There were once six blind men who stood by the road-side every day, and begged...
Joseph Conrad – The Lagoon
The white man, leaning with both arms over the roof of the little house in...
POETS' CORNER
Rae Armantrout – With
It’s well
that things should stir
inconsequentially
around me
like this
patina of shadow,
flicker, whisper,
so that
I can be still.
*
I write...
Rae Armantrout – And
1
Tense and tenuous
grow from the same root
as does tender
in its several guises:
the sour grass flower;
the yellow moth.
2
I would...
Reading second-language writing
Exophonic writers – those who write in a language other than their primary or so-say...
Arundhathi Subramaniam – Mitti
As a child
I ate mud.
It tasted of grit and peat
and wild churning...
Arundhathi Subramaniam
Described as 'one of the finest poets writing in India today’ Arundhathi Subramaniam was born...
