Writings for adult readers (18+). Some pieces are fiction, some are personal. Enter only if you are 18 or older and legally permitted.
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by Danae Kritikopoulou
A long poem in Ariadne's voice: left asleep on the beach at Naxos by the hero she saved, she wakes to the wine god walking out of the sea. She knows how his kind of love ends. She goes to him anyway.
Oct 31, 2026
by Matilde Sequeira Brandão
She came to the Douro to pick grapes and forget Lisbon. The heir of the old quinta has a drowned brother, a mother who covers every mirror, and a way of looking at her as if he's seen her face before.
Oct 30, 2026
by Tahmina Rezwan Shoily
An auditor from Dhaka is sent to a bank branch in Chattogram in the middle of the monsoon. The numbers don't add up. Neither does the branch manager, with his candles, his mangoes and his very careful hands.
Oct 29, 2026
by Emiliano Barragán Ochoa
Every Thursday the knife sharpener's whistle comes down her street in Oaxaca. He has a scar along his jaw, hands like a surgeon's, and a past in the north that two men in a grey truck have come looking for.
Oct 28, 2026