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Leaving Home

A dark kitchen table and chairs seen through a doorway with a single light above them

Photo by Ehud Neuhaus on Unsplash

Anna and Her Daughter’s Partner

By Laksmi Pamuntjak

“In Indonesia there are only two categories,” you replied. “Pacar atau suami—boyfriend or husband.”

Translated from Indonesian by Annie Tucker

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Illuminated highways in Kyiv at night

Photo by Levi Kyiv on Unsplash

a moving grove

By Iryna Shuvalova

go escape while you can go escape

Translated from Ukrainian by Uilleam Blacker

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The Milky Way is pictured above Earth's atmospheric glow blanketing Earth's horizon

Photo by NASA, licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Czech Enough

By Jaroslav Kalfař

Home is an ever-changing aspiration, not a truth or guarantee.

A Year Among the Boat People, My People

By Amir Ahmadi Arian

What brings people together isn’t language. If anything, when times are hard, shared language can deepen divisions.

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Galileo

By Aliyeh Ataei

One wrong move and somebody was bound to shout, “Watch yourself! You’re in Iran now.”

Translated from Persian by Salar Abdoh

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Ney Boulevard

By Ghazal Mosadeq

Your problem is that you say you are gay but have never seen a gay guy in your entire life.”

Translated from Farsi by Lida Nosrati

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Three abandoned Happy Meal containers from McDonald's

Photo by Meghan Hessler on Unsplash.

A Failed Journey

By Aura Estrada

They warned her that one more offense against good behavior and the promised trip to the promised land (the United States) would be cancelled . . .

Translated from Spanish by Mónica de la Torre

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Memories of Chernobyl

By Mohamed Makhzangi

The entire city began to wash itself ceaselessly . . .

Translated from Arabic by Samah Selim

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