Ah, black Christmas, you’ve arrived again, too soon. Why did you hurry back? We’re not glad to see you, we’ve been imprisoned for so many years. Ah, black Christmas — …
Set Me Free (Jalal Mahamede)
COURT Judge: What’s your name? Accused: Human. Judge: Who are your parents? Accused: Neither mother nor father. Judge: Place of birth? Accused: Paradise that has turned to ruins. Judge: Family …
Exit (Mohammad Ali Maleki)
Exit Have you ever heard about our years of sorrow? From fear of death we fled our homes for here. We didn’t know we were traveling to the city of …
i don’t know the word for depression in vietnamese (Kimberly Nguyen)
i don’t know the word for depression in vietnamese but it should be somewhere between blue and purple. it should be a quantity of red, or the difference between purple(tím) …
No Delicate Hands (Hasti Abbasi)
The girl next to me is wearing a flimsy red scarf with a triangular fold that shields her hair. She holds her hands up, cleaning her fingernails. The teenage boy …
Mind Goals (Mohammad Ali Maleki)
June 20 is United Nations World Refugee Day, a day where we hold the 25.9 million refugees of the world in our thoughts. Refugees around the world have made and …
Love (Moz/Mostafa Azimitabar)
Curated by Saba Vasefi Moz (Mostafa Azimitabaris) is a Kurdish refugee who fled from troubles in his homeland and arrived in Australia in 2013. He was forcibly transferred to …
The left and right side (David Ishaya Osu)
Central London: everyone seems to always be in a rush. So the right side of the escalator is perfectly convenient for me. But it’s nothing to worry about. London is …
Low Hanging Fruit (Suneeta Peres da Costa)
For MC The meeting rooms are named for ancient clans — Ettalong, Cammeraygal. I enter late and they’re teleconferencing, talking about low-hanging fruit and blue sky dreaming. I drift off, …
Rebirth (Patrick Sylvain)
For Grandpa F.P. I am dancing with faltering steps in a consuming Land of spiked honey. My flight to the carousel Of possibilities brought tears to my grandfather’s Angry eyes. …