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Tongue-tied
I felt like I had a Taiwanese body with the mask of a Chinese person.
A Shining Path of Blood: Massacres and a Monologue
Silence! One must not question the justice meted out by the Party!
Ladybirds’ Requiem
The whole thing started with an accident.
from “The Art of Flying”
After four days they started passing out rations—a loaf of bread for every ten people.
My Mother Was a Very Beautiful Woman
She tried homeopathic remedies and other alternative medicines.
Mean Folk: The Story of a Movement
Our workdays were long, the work was mind-numbing.
The Last of the Bunch
He moved away more than thirty years before you were born.
Palindrome
Why don't we visit my parents on the farm?
Acrostic
Let's go . . . far away . . . anywhere . . . start over
Counting on You
I still can't bring myself to erase your name from my address book.
False Faces: An Imagined Life of the Wig Gang
Remember that safe I carried off with Adjaj and Bernard and opened at my dad’s?
Sharing
We Have
We have nations that we don't want.
from “Morti di Sonno”
If one of those things explodes, the city’ll blow up too.
from “Etenesh”
When we get to Tripoli, you're on your own.
This is How it is When You’re Involved with Sensitive Girls
I choose to keep away from shrinks and still end up on their sofa.
Letter to the Mother
Because of you I fancied killing a hundred times.
Demonsterate
I've been wearing this tutu since I was a kid.
from “The Eternonaut,” Part II
There are other survivors!
A Great Step Forward: Memoir of the Famine
Even the roaches in the village are dying of hunger.
from “Les Mohameds”
I loved Renault like you'd love a mistress.
Romanticism
Our technology enables the resurrection of an incomplete body.
from “The International”
The old man had his eye put out by the colonists a few years ago.
The Eternonaut
Death, continuously falling in tiny, luminous flakes. The nightmare snowfall that had erased almost all life...
An Iranian Metamorphosis
Write why you drew that cartoon and why you chose a Turkish word.
Catharina Margaretha Linck
Catharina Margaretha Linck, executed for sodomy in Halberstad, 1721
from “Reunion”
Don't move. You're bleeding.
The Secret of Frequency A: An Incredible Disaster, part three
Use the Frequency A generator to extract all the secrets from inside his head. Then quietly kill him.
The Secret of Frequency A: An Incredible Disaster, part two
If they find out he's doing research for us, we're doomed!
Two Million People in the Square: Scenes from the Revolution
The people say: Step down now!
War Rabbit
We've taught bunnies to live above ground, and we've driven human beings underground.
The Story of Serafima Andreyevna
Cannibalism became commonplace.
from “Malamine”
You'll have to pay an air tax. On the air you're breathing, idiot!
The Cat’s Coming (in a Left-Handed Version)
Knock-out drugs! Rape! Murder! Dismemberment!
from “A Taste of Paradise”
Be at the basketball courts at six. We'll kill you.
from “Rébétiko (la mauvaise herbe)”
Today at noon among the vines / I kissed somebody else's wife
The Secret of Frequency A: An Incredible Disaster
I suspect that there is a sinister conspiracy secretly at work here in the proximity of the nature preserve.
Farniente
"If I died, would you find another woman to marry?" "Do you want the truth, or do you want me to tell you what you want to hear?"
from “Diary”
from Baudelaire, the Metaphysical Ostrich
from “Proud Beggars”
Albert Cossery and Golo slouch through a seedy Cairo
from “King-Ma Has Come”
Wei Tsung-Cheng produces a mock-heroic Chinese political history
from “That Was Happiness”
Blutch charts the end of a marriage
from “Farm 54”
Galit Seliktar and Gilad Seliktar map a soldier's first evacuation
from “Waiting for an Island”
Marc Legendre's daydreamer waits for his past
from “A Game for Swallows”
Zeina Abirached dodges bullets in the Beirut of her childhood
Letter to Survivors
Blizzard in the Jungle, Part Two
North Korean intrigue in the African jungle.
Listen, everyone, the plane was sabotaged.
Paradise . . . Kind of
Against Comics
Blizzard in the Jungle, Part Three
Tetsu of the Yamanote Line
From “A Drifting Life”
Blizzard in the Jungle
Kaspar
Il Maiale: The Pig
Waltz with Bashir
from “Chaabi”
Lisa
A Short Description of Lebanon
from Great General Mighty Wing
Run Movie 6: The Duck
from “Metro”
from “Life of Pahé”
from “Road Story”
from “Rabbit on the Road”
A Happy Childhood
Ballad of Ventas Prison
from Aya
A Bomb in the Family
The Pharoahs of Egypt
from Essence
Käte Frankenthal, an Activist Physician
Behind Iron Bars