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Olga Ravn

The Wax Child

Women who really do work magic, condemned by a court that manufactures its evidence anyway.

Ping Lu

To the East of the East

A husband gone to Macau under another man's name, explaining himself in letters that reach his wife too late.

Olga Ravn

The Employees

An investigation into strange objects aboard a generational ship escalates into a labour dispute the organisation acknowledges and buries simultaneously.

Fernanda Melchor

Paradais

A gardener paid in rum to hear out the boy next door, turning a nightly fantasy into a plan.

Kenan Orhan

The Renovation

A prison cell behind a bathroom wall serves an exile her country back, and it dissolves on the way out.

Fernanda Melchor

This Is Not Miami

Twelve accounts from Veracruz move between reportage, testimony and rumour, where the version of an event decides what happens next.

Marie Darrieussecq

How to Make a Woman

Two accounts of the same fifteen years, measuring what one woman inherits against what the other improvises across the road.

Fernanda Melchor

Hurricane Season

A woman's murder narrated as folklore, exposing the contempt that made her killable long before anyone raised a knife.

Makenna Goodman

Helen of Nowhere

A disgraced professor's self-knowledge restaged as evidence, ending in a shape borrowed from every story about men like him.

Babak Lakghomi

South

Political injury reassigned as private failure, each record altered before it can testify, until only the safer account survives in print.