Canada & Europe

This piece includes references to suicide that some readers may find distressing. We had spent a long time getting ready…

She sits at the back of the class, flanked by empty desks. What would it be like to have a…

By the time I see the lights of the guard post, it feels like night is already coming. The last…

August 1977, Jaffna The year that I turned eleven, every Wednesday, when school was over, I would skip the two…

We were stacked high and narrow in that terraced Victorian house. The attic contained two bedrooms, one of which always…

what your God adorns is straight and white, expected.   otherwise, suddenly there’s more at stake.    your mother spasms   &…

Translated to English by Helena Camilleri. Videography by Joseph Caruana.

‘I got called to prophecy on a night like this. Lonely feeling. I know you’re lonely here. But if you…

I trudged home from school through dirty snow and mud. The temperatures seesawed high and low, slicking the paths. I…

The first woman is pulled from the water by a fisherman. She is so perfectly preserved and lifelike, as if…

His name is Harry Joseph, and he is a decorated scholar. Over his sixty-two years of life, he has published…

say your body is yours until   the words hurt your mouth  then say it again    expand on the thought  …

Kids ask all sorts of questions, and Ryan is no exception. I don’t have the answer to every one of…

My back hurts; my head throbs; my shirt is sticking to me, tight against my skin. The sun is high,…

It is not the first time a tourist has died here, but it is the first time a tourist has…

1. I have to believe it was not Mama’s intention that I should die this slow death. That the most…