Category: Fiction

Fiction
Apothetae by Benedek Totth

In novelist Benedek Totth’s short story the violence of a soldier suffering from shellshock is cast into the light when he meets a mother and her disabled son.

Fiction
Shanghai Bitter by Noémi László

A young writer who has been invited to a book opening China explores the cultural backdrop of Shanghai while also pondering her motivations as an author.

Fiction
Love Money by Ildiko Noemi Nagy

How much is love money worth? In Ildikó Noémi Nagy’s short story a Brooklyn school friendships are made and lost in ways beyond the children’s control.

Fiction
Biography of a Black-and-White Lamb by Tomáš Zmeškal

A short story in which Thomas Zmeskal explores the essentially racist, exclusive nature of narratives of national identity in Central Europe.

Fiction
In Front of the Mirror by Marek Vadas

This short story by Marek Vadas offers a portrait of a town which is unable to confront its complicity in crimes of the past or crimes of the present.

Fiction
[1945] by László Szilasi

In Hungarian writer László Szilasi’s excerpt, Doctor Tardits returns to the village from Auschwitz, but what remains of his life there? Or who has occupied it since?

Fiction
The Polyglot Pub Key by Hász Róbert

Hungarian writer Róbert Hász recounts tales of his family home, a former pub in the multicultural province of Vojvodina, in modern-day Serbia.

Fiction
Whiter than white by Hubert Klimko-Dobrzaniecki

A troubling short story by Hubert Klimko-Dobrzaniecki which uses skin color as a way of exploring the traumas of life under a dictatorship propped up by propaganda.

Fiction
The Dog is Barking by János Háy

What are the benefits to prejudice? The Hungarian author János Háy explores our advantageous relationship to prejudice and discrimination as humans.