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Threshold

By Scott Broker
Silhouette of a crowd of people wielding swords against a fiery background, as if to suggest war.

Once Upon a Time

By Natsume Sōseki, translated from Chinese by Ryan Choi
A fly sits on edge of a white flower's petal against a blurry green background.

Kingdom

By Brian Gyamfi

My Mother’s Stalker

By K-Ming Chang

Peter Stamm

Peter Stamm was born in 1963, in Weinfelden, Switzerland. He is the author of the novel Agnes, and numerous short stories and radio plays. His novels Unformed Landscape, On A Day Like This, and Seven Years, and the collections In Strange Gardens and Other Stories and We’re Flying, are available from Other Press. His prize-winning books have been translated into over thirty languages. He lives outside of Zurich.
Fiction

Expectations

By Peter Stamm May 14, 2012

I imagine what Janneke and Karin would say if they saw us together: Oh, she’s lost it now.

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