Movable Type Issue No. 17: Farangis Elyassi
Farangis Elyassi The Emergence of Power Translated from the Dari by Shekiba Habib It was a strange night for me. I didn’t know what to put in the suitcase. Different questions kept popping into my mind. How much clothing should I pack? How long would I be...
Movable Type Issue No. 17: Fatima Saadat
Fatima Saadat Broken Branches Okay, here is one of my secrets: when I am alone in my room, I talk to my plants. I hug them and kiss the buds. Sometimes, I punish them too, and prevent them from getting sunlight and water, pretending I am Mother Nature. I...
Movable Type Issue No. 17: Stephen Kiernan
Stephen Kiernan Excerpt from The Glass Chateau In the valley lay the river, winking like a flirt in the afternoon sun. Where Asher found the energy, he could not say. Perhaps it came from the soap he held under his nose during the walk. But by the time he...
Movable Type Issue No. 17: Clifford Brooks
Clifford Brooks Poems from the new collection Old Gods This Weeping Affliction Worry, memory wound like an 8-day clock. Awake—my will, a fetching corpse fidgeting—never still. I do not ask you to understand. Dawn, daybreak, the cock— it makes my mouth lock on the...
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