Featured writer |  Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is considered the father of the Japanese short story. He was born in Tokyo. Sadly, he committed suicide at the age of 35. We feature one of his most famous stories, Rashomon. It is an evocative tale of a lowly servant who steals the kimono from an old woman. |
Celebrity Mourning
The crowds waited in anticipation as the pompous fanfares marked the opening of the red carpet, a crowd of slick ...
The Barrister
At an undisclosed time in British history, there lived a 14 year old boy with undiagnosed, but mild autism who ...
The Old Major and his Dog
There lived an old retired major in the hills of central Europe. No one knew in which armies he had ...
The Lion and the Hyena
A story set in 1980s Nigeria Muhammed lay quiet in the corner of his cell when police chief Chuwungu and ...
The Doctor
This story begins in the gas-lit and fog-covered alleys of Victorian London. There are prostitutes in the night along the ...
Greener Pastures
1. From the village "Kosisochukwu my son!" Ozioma called repeatedly as she ran along a slightly dangling narrow bamboo bridge ...
The Garden Hose
I have suspected my neighbor of using my garden hose without my permission for many years, perhaps even 20. Of ...
An Unequal Marriage
"An Unequal Marriage" by Vicente Riva Palacio (1832-1896) (published here with the permission of the translator, Toshiya Kamei) It was ...
A Balloon Seller
"A Balloon Seller" by Takane Kiuchi (published here with the permission of the translator, Toshiya Kamei) n a certain town ...
The Detective
by Rabindranath Tagore (adapted from a translation posted at YouthAffairZ, an online Magazine) am a police detective. I have only ...
A Hollywood script is a venereal disease
Let us take the hypothetical case of the transvestite Hungarian biker who lives in a motor-home near San Diego. He ...
Children of the World Unite!
The best thing about critical journalism is that you get to shed light on all the world issues without solving ...
A Political Fairytale
aaa Two politicians hit each on the head with a hammer and became mutually dependent on each other in order ...
At the ward
Nurse! Nurse! Come quickly! I am in pain, when will my doctor come? “I cannot say, I just passed by ...
Ashes of Love
My love died last week, I followed her coffin across the creek, Now, she is resting in jar on my ...
Homecoming
Moonbeams across the silent sea, silvery mist glides through the woody valley in my memory, to the house where I ...
When history is made
Hidden in the shadow of Napoleon’s stallion, a mother cries and a father despairs. Grand schemes and trampling boots intrude ...
The Jukebox
The last man at the end of time must have an infinite jukebox. The wind is dead, the stars faded, ...
The Fire-ship
We are on a mountain ledge my dog and I watching foreign carracks on a rolling moonlit ocean. Sails flutter ...
The State Of the Mind
by Joshua Kwesi Knowlife The mind can be a whole world Bigger the than universe Infinite in space It can ...
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