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- The Multitude Translated by Siobhan Marie Anderson
Author: Emile Verhaeren (Excerpt "La Foule" from "Les visages de la vie", Edmond Deman, 1899)
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- Talking On the Wall Ami Sands Brodoff
- The Cat Translated by Peter McCambridge
Author: Eric Dupont ("Bestiaire", published by Marchand de feuilles, 2008) - When Eyes Yellow Gregory Koop
- Alex Willow Partington
- The Window by the Train Isabelle Schumacher
- The Comeback Translated by Susan Lemprière
Author: Sébastien Roldan ["La remontée", Winner of the 2009 Short Story Contest held by XYZ. La revue de la nouvelle, published in issue no. 99 (fall 2009).]
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Talking On the Wall
Ami Sands Brodoff
Everybody tells Avelia that Carmen is a beauty. That her Mami has a body that turns Monday into Saturday, eyes that burn black and bright. [Read more...]
The Cat
Translated by Peter McCambridge
Author: Eric Dupont ("Bestiaire", published by Marchand de feuilles, 2008)
He made separatism a way of life. As far as I know, he remains the only person who managed total separation from everything. The day he no longer had children or a wife or a country to separate from, he started drinking to separate from himself. [Read more...]
When Eyes Yellow
Gregory Koop
It’s difficult to look at yourself, so you don’t. You go days without seeing your face. You might catch a glimpse on a building window when your patrol roles through Kandahar, but you have a helmet and sunglasses to protect you. [Read more...]
Alex
Willow Partington
I smile, amazed at how his response relates to the ridiculous politics of the day. An unintended bit of sense. I’ll never think of play-offs in the same way again.
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The Window by the Train
Isabelle Schumacher
I think about heading back home. But I want the train to rock me to sleep. I want to feel the watchful, confused eyes of hundreds of unknown strangers. [Read more...]
The Comeback
Translated by Susan Lemprière
Author: Sébastien Roldan ["La remontée", Winner of the 2009 Short Story Contest held by XYZ. La revue de la nouvelle, published in issue no. 99 (fall 2009).]
Ya know, ‘n life everyone’s suppose’ ta be equal, but there’s two big injustices in this world: money and good looks. ‘Cause they don’t depend on you and me, they depend on whoever brought us into this world. It ain’t right, but that’s the way it is, eh Mitch? [Read more...]