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Issue 119

Hands Across the Water

Rachel Seiffert

‘Dark red hair. Wee skirt and trainers, bare arms. All those freckles.’

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Enclosure

Jim Crace

‘Yes, our tomorrows will be shaped like this.’

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Animals

Michel Laub

‘I only stopped playing with him when he began biting the fingers of anyone who tried to pet him.’

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Violeta

Miguel Del Castillo

‘As if they longed to dive in but somehow couldn’t manage to.’

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Blazing Sun

Tatiana Salem Levy

‘It’s never easy to trade one love for another.’

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Evo Morales

Ricardo Lísias

‘Loneliness also makes our victories melancholy.’

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Every Tuesday

Carola Saavedra

‘A stranger may well function as a projection screen.’

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Lettuce Nights

Vanessa Barbara

‘When Ada died, the wash hadn’t dried yet.‘

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Teresa

Cristhiano Aguiar

‘They rise up into the sky, like vultures.’

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That Wind Blowing through the Plaza

Laura Erber

‘I didn’t go for the dental treatment, or for the gypsy dancing’

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The Count

Leandro Sarmatz

‘There was a touch of magic in surviving all that.’

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The Dinner

Julián Fuks

‘Sebastián can do nothing but seek refuge in his dinner plate.’

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A Temporary Stay

Emilio Fraia

‘There doesn’t seem to be any cause and effect.’

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Valdir Peres, Juanito and Poloskei

Antonio Prata

‘The only path to tread, from now on, was downward.’

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