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Ileya

By Adedayo Agarau

There are nights that escape

By Irma Pineda, translated by Wendy Call

This is war

By Irma Pineda, translated by Wendy Call

Death’s night won’t come gently

By Irma Pineda, translated by Wendy Call

Autumn Watts

Autumn Watts, a fiction editor for Guernica, grew up in rural Nevada and now lives in Turkey. Her work has appeared in Guernica, AGNI online, Desert Voices, and Indiana Review, among others; she is the co-editor of Constructing Qatar: Migrant Narratives from the Margins of a Global System; and she has led several research grants on oral histories and folklore in the Arabian Gulf. Currently, she's working on a collection of oral Qatari folktales and revising her first novel.
Deserts Lives AmericasBodies & NatureFamily & Relationships

Animals Died at Our House, and Other Things that Burn or Wear Away

By Autumn Watts May 7, 2018
There was the time I found an entire horse or cow skeleton laid neatly on top of the shed roof. When I asked my brothers what it was doing there, they looked at me patiently and said, We found it in the desert.
Fiction Arts & CultureAsia & Oceania

Two Stories

By Autumn Watts, with photography Kristin Giordano July 16, 2012

In Qatar, the birds have built their own hidden city.

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