Horror / Quiet Horror
The Extra Step
A woman moves into a cheap Buenos Aires apartment where the stairwell has one too many steps and the hallway angles refuse to add up — but her neighbors treat the wrongness as normal, the way you treat poverty when it's all you know.
Literary Fiction / Bildungsroman
The Glass Apprentice
A young glassblower in Lagos recalls her apprenticeship under a master whose exacting standards masked a secret about her own origins — a truth she can only see clearly now, years later, through the distortion of memory.