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28 Mar 2021 19 minute read 1 comment MURAT K. BEŞİROĞLU
Ayşe came to my door in the early hours of the morning. I looked at the outside door's camera view, and I saw that I wasn't wrong. Ayşe was waiting in front of the door like a lioness preparing to fall on her prey. Without getting out of bed, I opene...
28 Mar 2021 1 minute read 1 comment YmcyL.
Once, there was a pregnant cat. This cat was usually not around in house at night because she used to search for food, such as birds, rats, etc. As days passed by she finally gave birth to two little cats, so her time searching food was quite short...
28 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
Umin returns his attention to the task of filling his belly, as she settles the tub at the foot of his bed with a crisp, fleeting cacophony. “Such a feast.” He murmurs between mouthfuls of honeyed bread crust and fruity fungus. Though no gourmand b...
27 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments YmcyL.
Once upon a time, there was an island all the feelings lived: Happiness, Sadness, Knowledge, and all of the others, including love. One day it was announced to the feelings that the island was sink, so all constructed boats and left. Except for love....
25 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
The room is still and cool. Downy linens having slipped from bare and wiry limbs. His eyes wandering and still sleepy, light upon a shallow bowl bedside, piled high with minikin blood-hued oranges, bright like candle-shine against a heap of the scal...
24 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
Umin has little recollection of their return journey. The arduousness of his travails at last overcrowing, he remembers being suddenly embraced by slim and supple limbs with the inevitable strength of marble. Then being charily borne aloft, like a wi...
22 Mar 2021 1 minute read 2 comments ArmFarm
It was a late lazy summer afternoon. The heat still shimmered in waving curtains, as though being blown by rhyrhmic controlling wind. Jimmy had gone into his living quarters, sealed the entire system, and cranked up the environmental control to compe...
22 Mar 2021 7 minute read 0 comments MURAT K. BEŞİROĞLU
Could his father have been talking to a bare-chested woman at the clinic? Maybe I was wrong, Okan thought because such things were not regarded as appropriate in public places. A while ago, he decided not to talk unless it was necessary. It sounded...
22 Mar 2021 5 minute read 0 comments Hanzell
[WP] You sit down one night as your wife brings you your tea. On your first forkful, you think "This is cold." You look up and she is gone. The table is covered in dust, the house is in ruins, and the sky is filled with ash. The war was raging betwe...
22 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
The feculent ragman flinches, as though its name were an uttered curse or admonition. Umin moves gingerly closer, his boots soiled and squelching above the unspeakably succulent softness beneath his feet. In the near muck lies a plate of partially-co...
