Fiction

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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.


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Acute deafness

by Michael Wynn (the author's own translation from Norwegian) When an old woman dies, her face is washed in the ...
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The Salesman

by Michael Wynn (the author's own translation from Norwegian) A man takes a sip of water and moves from the ...
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I

by Padma Devkota I am the dust raised by the rolling wheels of sun and stars as they cruise across ...
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Forked Tongues of the Gorgon

by Angel Uriel Perales I, Africanus, not counted among the glorious thirteen, bereft yet of proper name and human dignity, ...
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