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A Black Dancer in a One-person Dance Company
Israel
While I was waiting for Eriksson, I decided to get rid of all my meds. I packed them in clear garbage bags and went downstairs to the trashcan, my hands full of Lomotil, Hismanal, Diazepam, Ampicillin,...
A Black Dancer in a One-person Dance Company
Esty G. Haim
14 min
Emily Of New Moon – Chapter 5
Canada
Diamond Cut Diamond EMILY, who had been pointedly ignored by the Murrays at breakfast, was called into the parlour when the meal was over. They were all there—the whole phalanx of them—and it occurred to Emily...
Emily Of New Moon – Chapter 5
Lucy Maud Montgomery
10 min
Being Frosya Shneerson (Chapter 6)
Israel
When everything in the house is upside down and all mixed up, it means only one thing: we’ve got company. It doesn’t matter how many guests there are — one or thirty-one — before their arrival,...
Being Frosya Shneerson (Chapter 6)
Tasha Karluka
8 min
THE ANGLE
Spain
Julia knocked on his door for the third time, looked through the keyhole without managing to see anything, and strode moodily up and down the roof terrace. She now realised that she should have done something...
THE ANGLE
Cristina Fernández Cubas
15 min
Vampire
Spain
It was the talk of the town. What a miracle! It’s not every day that a man in his eighties goes to the altar with a fifteen year old. To be precise, Inesiña, the niece of...
Vampire
Emilia Pardo Bazán
6 min
Emily of New Moon
Canada
Chapter I The House in the Hollow The house in the hollow was “a mile from anywhere”—so Maywood people said. It was situated in a grassy little dale, looking as if it had never been built...
Emily of New Moon
Lucy Maud Montgomery
10 min
Emily of New Moon – Chapter 2
Canada
A Watch in the Night Emily stood quite still and looked up at Ellen’s broad, red face–as still as if she had been suddenly turned to stone. She felt as if she had. She was as...
Emily of New Moon – Chapter 2
Lucy Maud Montgomery
15 min
Emily of New Moon – Chapter 3
Canada
A Hop Out of Kin Douglas Starr lived two weeks more. In after years when the pain had gone out of their recollection, Emily thought they were the most precious of her memories. They were beautiful...
Emily of New Moon – Chapter 3
Lucy Maud Montgomery
17 min
Emily from New Moon – Chapter 4
Canada
A Family Conclave EMILY wakened at daylight the next morning. Through her low, uncurtained window the splendour of the sunrise was coming in, and one faint, white star was still lingering in the crystal-green sky over...
Emily from New Moon – Chapter 4
Lucy Maud Montgomery
13 min
The Woman in Green
Spain
‘I’m sorry,’ says the girl. ‘You’re mistaken.’ I listen to her without batting an eyelid, nodding my head as if being mistaken were the most natural thing in the world. Because there’s no other explanation. I’ve...
The Woman in Green
Cristina Fernández Cubas
24 min
It Will All Be Over by Next Rosh Hashanah
Israel
An old woman cleans my house. She sends the money she earns to her children and grandchildren – maybe her great-grandchildren too. They all live in a nice house in some evergreen part of Europe, by...
It Will All Be Over by Next Rosh Hashanah
Vered Singer
8 min
Madame Bovary from Neveh Tsedek
Israel
Like at other periods of metaphysical ardor, at this time too, the body (that of a woman, to be sure) wasn’t taken very seriously.  This may be why even the dockworkers in the port that day...
Madame Bovary from Neveh Tsedek
Nurit Zarchi
10 min
Bringing Back Snow
Israel
One morning, they woke up and the cat wasn’t there. He wasn’t sprawled on the couch, as he usually was, gleaming white against the faded gray of the living room. He had not infiltrated his way...
Bringing Back Snow
Riky Cohen
6 min
What We’ve Become
Spain
I remember it was almost summer, and I called from my office, between patients, to make the appointment. Paz had recommended a beauty salon that happened to be near my parents’ house. I made an appointment...
What We’ve Become
Margarita Leoz
14 min
Nam
Spain
She’s getting naked. Something either very bad or very good is happening. Happening to me. Whatever it is, my parents can’t find out. I’m at a friend’s house. Nothing strange there. But my new friend, half...
Nam
María Fernanda Ampuero
12 min
Ladybird
Morocco
I held an unusually long reed in my hand and I dipped it as deep as I could into the river. It fell in and disappeared in front of me. I took my feet out of...
Ladybird
Latifa Labsir
7 min
A White Heron
USA
The woods were already filled with shadows one June evening, just before eight o’clock, though a bright sunset still glimmered faintly among the trunks of the trees. A little girl was driving home her cow, a...
A White Heron
Sarah Orne Jewett
16 min
Close to the Body – Fifth Place
Israel
I remember a tree. Its crown awning the path. I remember a large trunk, thicker than any I had seen before. I remember roots cleaving the black earth, bursting it asunder, like snakes fighting free and...
Close to the Body – Fifth Place
Sarit Elkon
9 min
Gabe
USA
Tommy’s cousin Gabe. Tommy’s distant cousin Gabe from Stillwater, Minnesota. Tommy’s cousin Gabe, related to my husband through divorce and remarriage, in lieu of actual blood, who arrives on my front porch at dinnertime with a...
Gabe
Holiday Reinhorn
7 min
The White Flower
Russia
Our friends the Zaitsevs live out of town “The air is so much better out in the suburbs,” they say. That is, they can’t afford to live where the air is bad. A small group of...
The White Flower
Teffi
4 min
A Woman in a Space
Israel
A woman is workspace when will someone love you? Have you ever stayed seated in your chair until lunchtime, you drink lots of water- your body took the shape of a chair. A woman in workspace,...
A Woman in a Space
Tehila Hakimi
3 min
The Rose Garden (A Fairy Tale)
Israel
High up, stretching into the sky, loomed the tower of the fair princess. It was made of pure crystal and its pinnacle was bedecked with gold and precious stones. All around it, a multi-hued, large rose...
The Rose Garden (A Fairy Tale)
Lea Goldberg
7 min
Safe Zone
Israel
I wash my hands, scrubbing them. They still smell of shit. 1. Sophie went joyfully down the slide, straight into Danny’s waiting arms. When he offered to help her climb back up, she said, “By myself.”...
Safe Zone
Deakla Keydar
9 min
The Other Two
USA
Waythorn, on the drawing-room hearth, waited for his wife to come down to dinner It was their first night under his own roof, and he was surprised at his thrill of boyish agitation. He was not...
The Other Two
Edith Wharton
29 min
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