Consulate | JOYLAND

Maps to Nowhere

Nara Vidal, translated from Portuguese by Emyr Humphreys -

How vast the human body, your human body, is. The nervous system sprawls like markings on a vast map of pleasure and affection. The things...

A Beauty in Dying

Stéphane Martelly -

The following story was translated from French by Katia Grubisic. It was originally published in French in Boustro 4, 2017 “...red earth does not dry...

The Origami of a Settler’s Heart

Rajiv Ramkhalawan -

You are headed to Trinidad for Carnival. In the lead up to your flight, the island of your birth consumes you, maddens you in the...

Nina, Rome

Cristina Sandu -

The following story is an excerpt from the story collection The Union of Synchronized Swimmers by Cristina Sandu. The Union of Synchronized Swimmers is available now from Scribe...

The Family Way

Christopher DiRaddo -

The year Paul turns 40, his friends Wendy and Eve ask him to help them get pregnant. Nothing about the process feels natural to...

The Resurfacing

Nivedita Barve -

This is a rambling account of my recent travel, even if I am writing it in an email. I wouldn’t specify such a thing...

Travellers

Kate Cayley -

The car lurched in late-afternoon traffic. Trout’s palms were stuck to the seat. The driver frowned into the mirror, talking into his earpiece; she...

Ophelia in the Underworld

Kit Mitchell -

On The Importance of Names ‘The fact is, we have doomed names,’ said Ophelia. She looked nothing like a pre-Raphaelite painting which was something she...

Daughters of the Air

Kate McQuade -

The game is Spin the Bottle. But now that we’ve emptied the bottle, whiskey’s casting amber blurs across the front-yard dusk, and our voices...

Sediment

Divya Maniar -

Do you remember how love tasted? A bitter, grainy tea. Leaves would always find their way down into the water, slipping, with great effort,...