Etiology
The elevator is narrow but deep as a dream, with a mirrored ceiling. Six-year-old Ricardo and his mother crowd into the last available space, pressed against an elegant white woman and her daughter, who’s twisting around like a rubber band toy and whining about going home.
Etiology
The elevator is narrow but deep as a dream, with a mirrored ceiling. Six-year-old Ricardo and his mother crowd into the last available space, pressed against an elegant white woman and her daughter, who’s twisting around like a rubber band toy and whining about going home.
Cravings are Eternal
Everyone in the world has at some point felt an insatiable desire for something or someone. Craving is a heightened state of longing, which always carries with it a sense of hopelessness, of the impossibility of fulfilment. The object of our longing can take many different forms. Perhaps we crave true love, or maybe just […]
Cravings are Eternal
Everyone in the world has at some point felt an insatiable desire for something or someone. Craving is a heightened state of longing, which always carries with it a sense of hopelessness, of the impossibility of fulfilment. The object of our longing can take many different forms. Perhaps we crave true love, or maybe just […]
What of Him?
I wish that you were here—I’ve settled my life
into this void filled to the brim with your absence.
And maybe the mystery lies in precisely
this fact—if the world sprung into existence,
it happened the moment you left.
What of Him?
I wish that you were here—I’ve settled my life
into this void filled to the brim with your absence.
And maybe the mystery lies in precisely
this fact—if the world sprung into existence,
it happened the moment you left.
In War’s Orbit
It was February. The roads around Kyiv were covered in thick snow, barely a hint of brown on the slush when more snow began to fall. The bag-eyed taxi driver and I crawled along in early morning traffic. Every now and again he wound down the window, spat, and continued his monologue. At first glance […]
In War’s Orbit
It was February. The roads around Kyiv were covered in thick snow, barely a hint of brown on the slush when more snow began to fall. The bag-eyed taxi driver and I crawled along in early morning traffic. Every now and again he wound down the window, spat, and continued his monologue. At first glance […]
the poplar trees will turn yellow then, when one night a sudden chill descends on them, and not leaf by leaf, like the happy trees, but from one day to the next the entire forest turns yellow, and in the weakening day the senile leaves lose their hold on the branches. at the end of […]
he will be a gypsy boy, or maybe half-gypsy; but this matters only because of a spontaneous phrase. otherwise he is the same kind of sweatsuited devil as the rest of us. at that time only the agronomist’s son wears jeans, and we envy him for it, but also get along well with him. we […]
strip-jointed floor, oil-fired stove, two-hundred seat auditorium to the world. we always buy tickets for the twelfth row. the rearmost medium-priced row. the entrance is five forints. for the first row, two. just once will i sit up there, to see a soviet film. i have to keep gazing upwards, my neck starts to hurt, […]
As he makes a nighttime visit to the cemetery where his grandparents are buried, a young man ponders questions which have troubled him since his childhood. He muses over the places where he sought refuge from the fuss and to-do of the world, including the imaginary garden of an imaginary friend. There was no light. […]
“…sometimes we lose buttons – much to our annoyance – but we never rid ourselves of one intentionally. Before worn or passé garments end up in the bin, off come the durable, reusable buttons, so they can join their companions and await the rare moment when perhaps they might again come near a needle and […]
Smartphone on the Sunday table. It’s all laid out. Spiders are crawling from underground. They desire your Beauty. Their names are Pride, Hate and Avarice. The web they spin is strong. Like our business relationship. In reality they own us. But you don’t know that yet. You still dream of Glory. Of monetizing Beauty. Of […]
“Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, conviction of things not seen.” Letters of Paul to the Hebrews, Chapter 11 Verse 1. “Faith means that one believes what one does not yet see. The reward of faith is that one will see what one believes.” St. Augustine “Faith demands a great deal because […]
Raise your hand if you have not been drilled from an early age to control, tame, conceal, or completely mortify your desires. From time immemorial, the principle of delayed gratification has been instilled in children since– by family, school, society, and literature. When I was very young, various child-rearing schools of thought in Czechoslovakia actually […]
the white-collar inhabitants of this globe will seriously mull over anything unworthy that does not affect their daily routines even if it let’s them fall headfirst into a manhole that won’t ever regurgitate them in vain they frown with relentless minds or goggle at the particular absence of some staggering objects which might pull them […]