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Saragossa in Berlin
Israel
Boaz called out to Chicko: “I saw those in the Golan, waiting for hot air to come so they can fly, be birds.” He was stretched out on the couch, watching a TV show about animal...
Saragossa in Berlin
Iftach Alony
8 min
Emerald City
USA
Rory knew before he came to New York what sort of life he would have. He’d read about it in novels by hip young authors who lived there. He saw the apartment, small but high-ceilinged, a...
Emerald City
Jennifer Egan
14 min
Richard Nixon, My Mother
Israel
The heart, had it been able to think, would stop beating, I thought as I entered that dark club. People leaning against the walls, people being dragged down to the light only to resume their fixed...
Richard Nixon, My Mother
Tahel Frosh
4 min
The Onlookers
Germany
Let’s see if the forests catch fire again. Let’s see if intense heat rushes toward us. Let’s see if smoke drives animals whose names we don’t know out of the bushes. Let’s see if that leaves...
The Onlookers
Kathrin Röggla
19 min
Prenzlauer Berg by Night (Nothing Doing)
Germany
That night I ran into the fox again at the corner of my road, just after one. And like the last time, he stopped and turned his head towards me and we stared at each other...
Prenzlauer Berg by Night (Nothing Doing)
Annett Gröschner
17 min
The JPEG
USA
At the end of the third week of April, Anna looked to her calendar and felt nothing for the retriever who’d started off the month with such vivacity. It had excessive hair, as usual, billowing in...
The JPEG
Rachel B. Glaser
12 min
The Drone Eats with Me – Diaries from a City Under Fire
Gaza
Thursday 17th July The First Truce I wake to the news that Israel has declared a five-hour truce, beginning at 10am. The Palestinian Monetary Authority has also announced that, during these hours, the banks will open...
The Drone Eats with Me – Diaries from a City Under Fire
Atef Abu Saif
17 min
To Jaffa
Israel
He placed his notepad on his knee and wrote: Cloudy. The smell of gasoline and garbage bins. Then he looked out the window again to verify that there was nothing he had failed to note. The bus...
To Jaffa
Ayman Sikseck
7 min
The Man in the Yellow Parka
France
Only after a few episodes did I notice him. He was trying to force the door to a rundown house at the corner of a derelict street. He was too far away to pick out his...
The Man in the Yellow Parka
Thierry Horguelin
16 min
Outrage
Mexico
 Why do I want a life without honor if I already bet everything I had? A. Esparza Oteo   A highway can be like the high seas. The sun burning on your face, the fresh cleansing...
Outrage
Álvaro Enrigue
16 min
Greetings from Dalmatia
Croatia
When you’re thirsty, the world bends out of shape. The ground becomes a convex sphere and each step you make feels like climbing. Trees lean over and their branches prick your eyes. Your eyes burn, your...
Greetings from Dalmatia
Želimir Periš
6 min
Mitigation
Chile
Don’t be afraid to cry from behind the camera, but don’t allow your tears to dampen the context, the photographer Nan Baldwin said to her in a room in a poor neighbourhood of Manhattan in 1979....
Mitigation
Kato Ramone
7 min
The Spider in the Jar
Canada
After collecting the beer bottles from the bunkhouses at the sawmill, the brothers headed into the forest behind their house to eat wild blackberries, until their bellies were rotten with them and their fingertips were stained...
The Spider in the Jar
Théodora Armstrong
5 min
The Origin of Species
Russia
The hatch slammed shut above his head, muffling the voices of the men up on deck, and Charles Darwin cautiously went below deck. He held the railing, polished by many palms, with one hand and a...
The Origin of Species
Viktor Pelevin
18 min
Chocolate
India
Tara was fat. Her husband made it clear that it didn’t do his image any good to have her waddling around, jiggling rolls of flesh. “I don’t waddle,” she said, hurt. “You do,” said Abhay and...
Chocolate
Manju Kapur
9 min
The Parts Where Your Pee Comes From
USA
She sat on a chair her hair cut short revealing her narrow neck. I wanted to cry and I wasn’t quite sure why exactly, that’s not true, I knew why. She gave me that intrusive thought that...
The Parts Where Your Pee Comes From
Emily Brout
6 min
Roy Spivey
USA
Traveling with a movie star   Twice I have sat next to a famous man on an airplane. The first man was Jason Kidd, of the New Jersey Nets. I asked him why he didn’t fly...
Roy Spivey
Miranda July
11 min
What You Looking at?
Israel
The light has turned green and my son shows no sign that he wants to cross the street. He won’t budge from the traffic island, his eyes squinting against the lashing sun, his hands on his...
What You Looking at?
Tamar Merin
8 min
Red Lights
Gaza
He reaches behind him, over the seat, so the passengers next to me in the back of the car can put their fares into his outstretched hand. He carelessly chucks the money down beside him, with...
Red Lights
Talal Abu Shawish
3 min
Television
USA
We have all these favorite shows coming on every evening. They say it will be exciting and it always is. They give us hints of what is to come and then it comes and it is...
Television
Lydia Davis
4 min
Boredom
France
In periods of boredom, time turns its back on existence and we stand outside ourselves. (CIORAN, Entretiens)   It was a forced entry of light. The waves of hostile winter sun spilled over the linoleum. And...
Boredom
Sylvain Tesson
13 min
The Girl Goes to Calabria
Italy
While he was waiting for his gas tank to be filled at one of the many stations found at the beginning of the Cassia road, on the way out of Florence, attorney Adami kept looking at...
The Girl Goes to Calabria
Giuseppe Berto
30 min
The Last Osama
Israel
I was riding through the lowlands, the horse’s hooves scattering dry dust into the air. An inflamed red sun hovered on the horizon like a damaged eye, leaking tears of yellow and blue and tendrils of...
The Last Osama
Lavie Tidhar
27 min
The Kid
Israel
Bitterness is a disease of old age; I aged early and by the time I was thirty six it had metastasized through every part of me. I loathed my past as much as I feared the...
The Kid
Rave Sagie
5 min
Water Breaking
Israel
He walks into the living room, flinging the keys from his hand; they jingle slightly in mid-air before landing in the empty copper bowl at the center of the table – echoing like a gong. His...
Water Breaking
Dorit Rabinyan
16 min
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