April 2020
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Chitarroni and Chatwin in Patagonia
Author: Luis Chitarroni Title: From Siluetas/Silhouettes (La Bestia Equilátera, 2012) Language: Spanish (Argentina) Excerpt Length: Approx. 1,300 Words Translator: Allison A. deFreeseRights Holder: Luis Chitarroni,..
The Consolation of Joy Williams
Can we incorporate and treasure and be nourished by that which we do not understand? Of course. — Joy Williams It was a fresh day..
The Girl on the Roof
She arrived in Buenos Aires with the story born of her travels so fulsome in her that she felt like a woman she’d seen in..
One Year, One Hundred Years
Imagine entering an apartment building that is outwardly non-descript, concrete, post-modern; it rises shadowing a mosque next door. Imagine the muezzin’s call to prayer is..
The Reincarnated One
1956 was an especially poor monsoon year, the drought which had gripped our region intermittently over the past few years was now starting to take..
Lost and found
The old book’s cloth cover had turned gray. A friend, who knows my passion for Eastern poetry, had just given it to me as a..
Arcs of Memory
I No one in Bodhi’s village had expected an ascent of the Mount Everest. It alarmed his mother. Men had trespassed on an abode of..
Remarkable Fall
On an otherwise ordinary autumn day, I killed a three-year-old boy. One might think that the air held some hint of warning, but it didn’t—just..
To The Horizon
The wind blows the dust and dry dirt across the plains, ceaselessly lifting it from the earth only to set it down again elsewhere. The..