Air Raid Season
Two Ukrainian women exchange voice messages during the 2026 Winter Olympics — one broadcasting from a Kyiv studio between air raid alerts, the other watching from Toronto while her son asks if the people on television are real.
Unfinished Depositions
Three siblings clearing their grandmother's Madrid apartment discover Franco-era execution orders signed by their grandfather. Told entirely through documents — judicial records, abandoned memoirs, text messages — the story asks what a family owes to silence and to the names it kept hidden.
Still Life with Draft
A woman opens her house to her returning sister for three October days. Between meals and silences and the particular light of a river valley, what each sister chose — to stay or to go — reshapes every room.
Sparrows Beneath the Grandstand
Two old men in the press box of an abandoned minor league stadium broadcast a game to no one. One calls phantom at-bats with frightening specificity. The other provides color commentary that drifts into philosophy and ruin. Over nine innings, the line between invention and memory dissolves.
Crude Approximations
In a society where adults communicate through pheromone secretion, an actuary losing his sense of smell must fake fluency in a language he can no longer perceive.
Solange and the Bread
A widow earning ten francs a month divides a loaf across seven days while counting the months until her son turns twelve and can apprentice. The bread gets harder. The boy gets taller. The arithmetic never stops.
Yield to Maturity
Six graduates of an elite law school, fifteen years later. One is dead. The survivors' stories interlock in non-chronological fragments, revealing how identical starting conditions produce a senator's aide, a legal aid lawyer, a passed-over associate, a teacher, a podcaster, and a body.
The Satiation Index
In a city where hunger has been solved, a woman stops eating. Not as protest or illness — her body simply declines. As officials attempt to categorize her condition, she begins to perceive gaps in the city that no one else can see.
Otolith and Evening
On a Saturday afternoon in Brooklyn, a Nigerian-born woman prepares her apartment for a party she does not want to host, and in the hours between plantain and doorbell discovers that her own name has become a sound she can no longer hear.
Brilliant Enough
A day in the life of a comparative literature professor whose ornate inner brilliance has become a substitute for the outer life he stopped building. A student's impossible question, a committee's institutional theater, and a manuscript he may never send.
Somnographic Index of Disappearances
A border-city somnologist compiles her clinic's annual case index, documenting seventeen women who arrived with identical nightmares and never returned. As the entries accumulate, the clinical document fractures — and its author becomes patient eighteen.
Frequency and Noise
A professor's twenty-two-year manuscript on contrarianism is preempted by his former student's bestseller. Forced to reckon with his own obscurity, he discovers the hardest form of refusal is refusing yourself.
The Other Side of the Lake
A man and woman spend a weekend at a lakeside cabin they once shared with friends. Between small tasks and careful conversation, what they cannot say about their daughter reshapes everything around it.
The Green Room Problem
A writer at a prestigious coastal residency goes through the motions -- panels, dinners, conversations -- while something essential leaks away. The gap between the person in the green room and the person onstage becomes the only subject left.
Arranging the White Flowers
Kavitha arranges flowers for a neighbor's party in a small Ontario town, while a phone call from Calcutta and a stray cat in the yard pull her between the life she chose and the one she left behind.
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.
Versions of the Parking Lot
Three voices circle an incident in a strip mall parking lot: a woman in detox rewriting her own wreckage, an orderly confusing witness with worship, and a stolen text that knows too much.
Kai, After All
When Runa Dasgupta's estranged son dies in Connecticut, she must drive south to arrange his funeral in a house she's never seen, with a daughter-in-law she insulted six years ago over a grandchild's name.
Soft Architecture
A laid-off consultant builds a rigorous domestic practice of candles, linen, and slow mornings. A brand deal, a colleague's breakdown, and her mother's worry converge in one week. The story never tells you whether she's healing.