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It’s Me
Germany
The Sankt Johannesweide Psychiatric Outpatient Clinic encompasses spacious grounds. Patients have access to this Lower Bavarian gem among mental institutions from seven in the morning until six in the evening, five days a week. For the...
It’s Me
Kristina Schilke
9 min
Sloth
Germany
Fritz had met ‘that Hilda woman’ in a bar called Paradise Now – sheer chance, really. He never usually went to places like that. For years he had been rotating among three or four pubs and...
Sloth
Eva Menasse
13 min
The Great Illusion at Klingenreiter Lumber Sawmill and Woodworking Import Export
Germany
When Ferdinand Klingenreiter asked the audience, dear friends and family, boys and girls, to be quiet for his great illusion, some laughed; most went on talking. The Stadelmann girls interrupted their squealing chase and turned towards...
The Great Illusion at Klingenreiter Lumber Sawmill and Woodworking Import Export
Saša Stanišić
16 min
Another Love Story
Israel
1. A month before Independence Day, 2048   The Chief Scientist of the Weizmann Institute took a deep breath and turned on the secret switch on the back of the Hitler. The Hitler blinked. And blinked...
Another Love Story
Uzi Weil
11 min
Copy and Paste
Israel
In those days I talked a lot about weapons. There was Alex, the lone soldier who lived with the old lady. It was unclear whether they were related. On Friday afternoons Alex was always out on...
Copy and Paste
Yoav Rosen
11 min
Caviar
Romania
I’ve found so many things in my hat by now, I couldn’t even list them all. Sandwiches, rotten food, rocks, trash, dog shit more than once. I end up with more junk than bills. But of...
Caviar
Ilka Papp Zakor
6 min
The Japanese Garden
Spain
When I was nine years old, my father hired me a whore. A whore, logically, who was nine years old. I have forgotten the clothes, the toys, the food, everything that was my life at nine...
The Japanese Garden
Antonio Ortuño
6 min
Ten Kliks South
USA
This morning our gun dropped about 270 pounds of ICM on a smuggler’s checkpoint ten kliks south of us. We took out a group of insurgents and then we went to the Fallujah chow hall for...
Ten Kliks South
Phil Klay
15 min
The A Line
Israel|USA
Earlier, the pipe from the water tower on the roof burst and water began to fall. Now we’re sitting around my dining table in the living room, drinking Champale and eating humus on melba toast. Two...
The A Line
Miryam Sivan
17 min
Back to The Land
Mexico
We only learned about the curse three months after Mom had sold our apartment, bought this land, and unceremoniously upped and moved us here. The Land came with a rudimentary house, mature trees that plied us...
Back to The Land
Laia Jufresa
7 min
Verging on the Abyss
Israel
The defining period of my youth stretched into my mid-twenties, and more than any other afflictions, it was plagued by deep seated agitation. I engaged in minor, almost perfunctory, identity crises, but overall I willingly acceded...
Verging on the Abyss
Jonathan Fein
29 min
Titanium
Israel
Light snow fell on Bilbao. We sat there beneath the Guggenheim Museum and waited for it to open. A few meters away stood the famous architect Frank Gehry, carefully examining the extravagant structure whose planning had...
Titanium
Dror Burstein
8 min
The Northeast Kingdom
USA
He had always believed that his immortality would take the form of the Aerojet. The two-stage, solid-fuel boost rocket had been, in its time, one of the crowning achievements of human technology — the first apparatus to...
The Northeast Kingdom
Nathaniel Rich
41 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
An old story
Israel
I live in the dread of silence. But am I not the soundless of all? Grey, humped, rat-like monsters with reddened eyes shadow my life. I detect them. Recognize them. Catch their scent as they come...
An old story
Iftach Alony
1 min
Honey
Israel
She was so glad the wedding was over. The unadorned car stopped in front of the hotel at the far end of the esplanade. They stepped out, he and the driver, his best friend, hugged before...
Honey
Liat Elkayam
12 min
Ksantini, The Last Child of the Century
Israel
The stain could not be allowed to spread any further across the wall. My desk stood against that wall and my eyes, which looked at the stain, were too close to it. I couldn’t tell if...
Ksantini, The Last Child of the Century
Sami Berdugo
20 min
Architect in the Square
Israel
The architect came one day to stroll round the garden he had created in the square next to the theatre. He was wearing a yellow cap and a yellow linen jacket, strewn with yellow squares that...
Architect in the Square
Adi Sorek
5 min
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
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
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