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The Bullfighter of Bisterne: Part Three

Faisal G. Binzagr
Grean and black spider-monstr. Headline says The Bullfighter of Bisterne Part Three

You are reading a novella in four parts. To read Part One, click here. To read Part Two, click here. Prelude to Part III: Another Path 2030 The Oracle shows …

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The Bullfighter of Bisterne: Part Two

Faisal G. Binzagr
Fantasy red dragon. Headline says The Bullfighter of Bisterne Part Two

You are reading a novella in four parts. To read Part One, click here. Prelude to Part II: The Legend of the First Dragon “Let me tell you a story …

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Marjane Satrapi: A Talented Artist Who Cared About Iran

Sima Shakhsari
Marjane Satrapi looking to the side and smiling.

Editor’s Note: Many thanks to Sima Shakhsari for allowing this reprint from their social media account. I wish for an in-between space to neither make Satrapi into a hero nor …

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لِمَنْ أَكْتُب — مَارِينَا تْسْفِيتَايِفَا

Khalid El Khamlichi
Photo of Marina Tsvetaeva

بعد أن أنهيتُ ترجمة هذا النص لـتسفيتاييفا ، لم أعرف تماماً ماذا أفعل به. بقي لبعض الوقت في حال من التعليق، يتأرجح بين ملفات الحاسوب، كأنّه لم يقرّر بعد إن …

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World of Halves

Farah Elbahnasawi

Half-opened window,and my half-opened eyes,shadows swayed to an unfamiliar rhythm.Hushed movements, restless haste—filled the silence behind the unseen. My senses sharpened to their edge,my ears pricked like a cat’s.My eyes …

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The Bullfighter of Bisterne: Part One

Faisal G. Binzagr
Part One of story - Fantasy figure with horns like a bll. One horn is broken with a bit of blood on the cut. Planets and stars are in the background.

Prologue: Myth of the Maker  Father said: “Let me tell you a story: There is a creation myth, one of many about our Makers, that persists in Paradise. For it …

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Awake (Thirty One)

Ryan Gipson II
Photo of a box with eyes painted on it and a little girl's legs visible at the bottom.

Awake(thirty one) Something ain’t right about tonight.i worry for the kids on my block asthey smoke they scream they hidei drink i run i cryand after we all come down …

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The Year My Life Split in Two

Alaa Ahmed Dmeida

For me, and for all Palestinians living in Gaza, 2023 was a year of relative peace. I was a Tawjihi student (the final high school examination in Palestine) in the …

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Roundtable: Science Fiction Writer Emad El-Din Aysha in Conversation with Latin American Science Fiction Writers

Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD
During a gravity assist in 1992, the Galileo spacecraft took images of Earth and the Moon. Separate images were combined to generate this composite which features a view of the Pacific Ocean and Central and South America. NASA/JPL/USGS

Recently, Emad El-Din Aysha, a member of the Egyptian Society for Science Fiction (ESSF) and the Egyptian Writers’ Union, invited seven well-known Latin American science fiction writers to a round …

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A Day of Floods

Marwa Moataz ALhallaq

A flooded day, an unprecedented night,Heavy hours, with tears pouring down. “What’s happening to you?”It has been flooding for five long hours. “It’s good! it’s raining.”Yes… once upon a time, …

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