Fiction The Cutting Room

On Waking in a Stranger’s Room

By Danny Ramadan November 22, 2022

I look up one last time, and my father’s face appears at the top of the stairs.

The Cutting Room

Raw Material

By Sorayya Khan November 7, 2022

I skate through time a little longer, backward and forward, backward and forward.

Family & Relationships

The Cutting Room

Photographs by Alan Chin September 27, 2022

A meditation on answering the question, “How do you photograph a microbe?”

USA

Fiction The Cutting Room

By Vanessa Hua May 10, 2022

Shrimp Boy emerges from beneath his table, locks eyes with me, and flees.

Arts & Culture

The Cutting Room

By Jori Lewis April 19, 2022

Beneath the economic empire of the richest man in Africa lies the lowly peanut.

Africa

Fiction The Cutting Room

By Elaine Hsieh Chou March 28, 2022

His cruelty was an afterthought, something clipped carelessly on his belt.

The Cutting Room

By Chris Lockhart and Daniel Mulilo Chama March 17, 2022

An intimate portrait of Zambian street children

Africa

The Cutting Room

By Cole Arthur Riley February 22, 2022

On learning how to listen for deep story

Family & Relationships Race