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My grandfather was a card cheater...
My grandfather was a card cheater. I don’t know how honest or dishonest he really was. Did he make anyone poor? Maybe not. Maybe he only won from the rich and the crooked — I like to think so. I never met him. I only saw one photograph: a thin man with hollow cheeks, sitting in a hospital chair, dying of tuberculosis. My father looks exactly like him. And I look like my father. So, in a way, I look like my grandfather too. He died at fifty-five, already an old man. That gener
Gulnara Sapargalieva
Nov 14, 20252 min read


“Just a sugar shaker”
It stands on my dining room table. Tarnished silver-plated top, chunky heavy fluted glass below. My grandmother’s sugar shaker, with a dusty crystalline residue of caster sugar that hasn’t been replaced since she died in 1984. Nearly 42 years since that January day, with pewter grey storm clouds and fleeting rainbows, when the impossible happened and she died. Well, it wasn’t impossible, she was 91 years old after all. But I just had never considered it possible that this

Rosanna Moseley Gore
Nov 14, 20251 min read


Silver Francis
(illustration by W. and E. Sarett) Believe it or not, an incredible incident happened a few years ago in a distant village called...

Walter and Evangelina Sarett
Oct 12, 202510 min read


One of Us
“I believe in aliens. I don’t believe they want to be friends if they know us.” — A personal diary of a nine-year-old. “There are no...

Anka Troitsky
Sep 2, 202510 min read


My brother
He is the smile in every week, his absence sparks a riot in my head, the back of him is the end of my day. Created from mirth is his...
Ronan Quinn
May 5, 20251 min read


Может, случай нам...
Рассказ победил в конкурсе в 2021 и попал в сборник "Осторожно, двери закрываются" (2021) — Привет! — радостный мужской голос встречает...

Anka Troitsky
Apr 18, 20257 min read


The Cookbook That Makes You Want to Travel. And Cook!
Kristina Babi’s new book, Breakfast in London, Dinner in Paris The cookbook that makes you want to travel. This is how I’d describe...

Darya Protopopova
Apr 9, 20253 min read


Sunken Without You
Sunken without you. Tears of ice fall to the dry ground, tear ducts frozen over, a thaw yet to commence, slippery and cold to the touch...
Ronan Quinn
Mar 7, 20251 min read


Шоколадка
Полежав в темноте в обнимку с другими шоколадками своего вида, она неожиданно увидела свет супермаркета и новогодние огоньки на верхней...

Olha Bereza, aka Holley Dovetail
Mar 7, 20252 min read


Там Реалия
Анка Б. Троицкая Вчерашний дождь не смыл кровь чудовищ с камней. Облака опустились и заполнили ущелье быстрыми волнами, текущими в...

Anka Troitsky
Jan 10, 202525 min read


The sea lingers
The trees sway in the wind, I turn to feel a touch on my shoulder. A mutual fund for grey skies, nurturing a capacity for sadness,...
Ronan Quinn
Jan 8, 20251 min read


Новогодний Свитерок
Я недолго дремала, когда услышала звонок телефона сквозь сон. Ну, конечно. Я опять заснула в кресле и с вязанием в руках! Бьюсь об...

Anka Troitsky
Dec 13, 20248 min read


Иммерсив (из цикла "Творческие люди")
Спектакль шел на заброшенной овощебазе, и зрителям при входе выдавали реквизит, кому что. Мужчина, стоявший в очереди перед Музой,...

Katerina Linnik
Dec 6, 20247 min read


Your essence
You have an essence that I will go and get. As you think of me, so I do of you, a hanging calm, not settled yet, I take hold of your...
Ronan Quinn
Nov 18, 20241 min read


КТО-КТО...
«Лето – это маленькая жизнь». Из песни Олега Митяева Хватит мотаться по миру. Здесь я умру… в этом самом кресле. Ой! Извините за...

Anka Troitsky
Nov 1, 20249 min read


Остров Джарылгач
"Остров Джарылгач" - глава из незаконченной повести, под рабочим названием «Чужая» - Знаешь, как древние греки Чёрное море называли? -...

Valentina Corcoran
Oct 18, 20244 min read


Долго ли, коротко...(сатирический рассказ на Хэллоуин)
«Магия на самом деле очень проста, все, что вам нужно сделать, - это чего-то захотеть, а затем позволить себе это получить» - Эгги...

Anka Troitsky
Oct 7, 20248 min read


Козырная ("Пиковая Дама")
Не важно, что тебе выпала хорошая карта. Важно, как ты её сыграешь. Подслушано в английском клубе Пока ты не откроешь глаза, я слеп, а...

Anka Troitsky
Sep 13, 202415 min read


Wait for me
Wait for me, please, and we will travel far into the sunset together, we’ll hold all ready worn out hands, hands soft, but well flowered,...
Ronan Quinn
Sep 6, 20241 min read


Book Review: "Songs from the Suitcase" by Rosanna Moseley Gore
If you are thinking of writing a memoir or a family history, this book is for you. If you are an immigrant living across cultures and...

Darya Protopopova
Sep 2, 20242 min read
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