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The Reason for Discouragement: Verses from Mexico

Mexico Tomás Calvillo UnnaSeptember 18, 2018 Prose

La Razon del Desanimo (English translation below) Ingenuos creyentes del paraíso abonamos al infierno, adheridos a los sentidos como único camino. Hemos convertido al mundo …

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A Twenty-Year-Old Letter from London: Memories, Midlife, and the Millennium

the United Kingdom Marga OrtigasAugust 30, 2018 Places Prose

Let me paint you a scene — it is still one of my favourites in the world: I am sitting in the Royal Festival Hall …

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Papi’s Puzzles: Love, Loss, & Logic

the Philippines Marga OrtigasApril 9, 2018 Prose

My father did the crossword every evening when he came home from work.  I think solving puzzles helped him wash away the day. He’d fold …

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Sandcastles by the Seine: A Fable of Love and Longing

France Marga OrtigasOctober 9, 2017 Prose

This was supposed to be the beginning of the beginning. But I don’t know where to start. Ten years ago?                         London. A dark …

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Marawi

the Philippines Angela CasauayJuly 27, 2017 Places Prose

By the side of Lake Lanao strips of dodol hang by a thread wrapped in cellophane and corn husks like body bags strewn together loosely unlike the …

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Smog: Working through Heartbreak in Beijing

China Marga OrtigasApril 11, 2017 Prose

The grieving never stops.  That much I can tell you. With certainty. It hits you when you see their name… on an old email, a …

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At Majeed’s: Art, Truth, & War in Baghdad

Iraq Marga OrtigasFebruary 4, 2017 People Places Prose

The afternoon was overcast. The way most December afternoons are in Baghdad. A soft mud-yellow breeze blowing against a beige sky. The brown date palms …

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The Sound of Pain

China Marga OrtigasMay 23, 2008 Prose

The sound of pain is universal. You do not need to understand the language of the words when the wailing the tone the texture of …

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Snowflakes

Poland Marga OrtigasApril 12, 2005 Prose

“Into the clockwork universe the quantum child. Why doesn’t every mother believe her child can change the world? The child can. This is the joke. …

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Sandstorm

Iraq Marga OrtigasMarch 8, 2005 Places Prose

Where does one life end and another begin? In the whirlwind of a sandstorm… how do you see the beloved’s face? The beloved. A mirage. …

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