Klára Vlasáková (Tr. Alex Zucker) 8/19/25 Klára Vlasáková (Tr. Alex Zucker) 8/19/25

The Cells

“I learned, in fact, how to make myself invisible.”

Karim Kattan 8/19/25 Karim Kattan 8/19/25

Burial at Sea

“All I wanted was to be nowhere with you.”

Grzegorz Bogdał (Tr. Dawid Mobolaji) 8/19/25 Grzegorz Bogdał (Tr. Dawid Mobolaji) 8/19/25

“There lay the space suit, its sleeves and legs twisted unnaturally, like a victim of a fall from a great height.”

Sener Ozmen (Tr. Nicholas Glastonbury) 8/19/25 Sener Ozmen (Tr. Nicholas Glastonbury) 8/19/25

“He had neither family nor tribe to be proud of, except for Neil Armstrong, who set foot on the Moon the day he was born.”

Jumaana Abdu 8/5/25 Jumaana Abdu 8/5/25

“I was up against two opposing demands: his longing to be pronounced a man, and the government’s preference that he was not.”

Luciana de Luca (Tr. Kit Maude) 8/5/25 Luciana de Luca (Tr. Kit Maude) 8/5/25

“Said quietly, the name lingers in your mouth like a candy-sized stone, impossible to swallow or spit out.”

Eliana Alves Cruz (Tr. Benjamin Brooks) 8/5/25 Eliana Alves Cruz (Tr. Benjamin Brooks) 8/5/25

“I entered that bathroom a romantic teen and left a tormented woman.”

Salomat Vafo (Tr. Sabrina Jaszi) 8/5/25 Salomat Vafo (Tr. Sabrina Jaszi) 8/5/25

“Now she ate and drank, but didn’t know who she was. A whole eighty years of life forgotten.”

The Dial 8/5/25 The Dial 8/5/25

Issue 31: Fiction