Here, translation unlocks stories from languages afar, people unknown yet familiar in voices that stun you and resonate with you. Here is your book of world stories
The Tamarind Tree – Shyamal Gangopadhyay
Shyamal Gangopadhyay (1933 – 2001) was a renowned Bengali novelist and editor. He received Sahitya Academy Award in 1993 for the novel of Shahjada Darasukoh, based on the life of Mughal Emperor Dara Shukoh...
Insomnia – Charity Morris
Charity Morris lives in Eastern Oregon with her partner. Previous publications can be found in The Lucky Jefferson and Havik: Journal of Literature and Arts...
The Ballad of No Name Joe – Dakota William Szaniszlo
Dakota William Szaniszlo is a poet and writer from Tucson, Arizona with their first novel nearing completion. They have been featured in Canyon Voices Literary & Arts magazine and promise much more to com...
Ghost Bread – Marco Etheridge
Marco Etheridge is a writer of fiction and CNF, an occasional playwright, and a part-time poet. He lives and writes in Vienna, Austria...
Dilemma on the Subject of the Ancient Prodigal Vulture – Romel Rahman
Romel Rahman is a poet, writer and playwright from Khulna, Bangladesh.The story is translated from the Bengali by Chirayata Chakrabarty...
The Favor – Megan Marie Sullivan
Megan Marie Sullivan graduated from Northwestern University with an MA in Creative Writing in 2012. She currently lives in Chicago and train robots for a living...
City Nightmares – Hisham Bustani
Translated from the Arabic by Mala Tabet The building is dark and gloomy, full of ghosts from the past. They wander around, in and out of apartments and rooms, and up…...
Boundaries – Deb Bandyopadhyay
Deb Bandyopadhyay is a scientist and a student of poetry. Deb’s poems portrait vivid imagery of scattered pieces of his life in distant continents...
The Great Patriotic Parade – Matheus Borges
Matheus Borges was born in Porto Alegre, southern Brazil. His fiction has been published in a number of magazines, both Brazilian (Subversa, Gueto) and international (Waccamaw, Fiction International, Scoundrel Time), as well as anthologies...