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The Little Moon Who is Afraid to Shine
Ann Fulleros
Lumi was the smallest moon in the entire night sky.
She was also the most nervous.
Every evening, just before sunset, the Moon Family gathered behind the tallest clouds for…
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Do Good and Evil Sometimes Sleep?
Where do they live?
Resul Jusufi
For some time now, I have been dreaming of Good and Evil. Often, they rob me of my sleep. Their conversations are loud — sometimes hysterical, sometimes violent; sometimes so…
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This House Never Is Quiet
Zahra Oveisi
I am afraid. Not of things, not of people — of everything. Not the kind of fear that comes suddenly and passes, but a fear that has settled into my bones, grown roots there, and…
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The Last Kingdom
Marat Myrzakhmetov
Great empires rarely perish from catastrophic convulsions. More often than not, they simply fragment into individual rooms, corridors, and sanitary zones.
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When the Black Swan Drowned.
Ahmed Sami
BLACK SCREENThe words slowly appear on screen:"What, conceivably, is the worst story your mind can weave when the melodies of Tchaikovsky's…
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A recovered text from the first iExile body — returned to circulation, not as nostalgia, but because it still burns.
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Bulă, or How We Invented Quantum
Jaia Papitz
A literary satire about laughter, bureaucracy, and the small cosmic errors that keep reality from sealing itself shut.