Cate LeBrun — Excerpt: I lack enough German to be considered functional so I nod like a stage actor, a smile fixed and hanging on by its sensitive teeth.
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Rapunzel Has Insomnia
Mary Buchanan — Excerpt: Her DNA smells of roses and lavender and her days are spent searching mirrors for keys to the future her author has already denied her.
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Window Seat to the City
Raka Banerjee — Excerpt: I remember reading a beautiful poetry collection, one of the first borrowed from the British Council Library, on-board the Kolkata tram.
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In Salamanca, Spain
Rafaela Kottou — Excerpt: Salamanca, Spain is where I had the best steak of my life. It was at a restaurant in the center of the city, which they call the Plaza Mayor.
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Do Not Pet While Working
Kira Córdova — Excerpt: If you have an 18th-century British military kink, I beg you, don’t tell me.