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 Josephine Arceneaux Pryor
A photographer in New Orleans has taken three hundred and twelve instant photos of the same jazz singer. She knows every angle of his face. Then she climbs the stairs to his balcony on Esplanade Avenue and finds out who's really been watching whom.
Oct 31, 2026
by Agata Sowińska-Lech
For six months she has learned every line, every gesture, every breath of the woman playing Lady Macbeth in Warsaw. She knows the part by heart. She knows the actress by heart too. Then one night, the voice goes.
Oct 29, 2026
by Šárka Vlčinská-Doubravová
A long poem in eleven letters, each one fed to an old iron stove in a Prague attic in January. Burning them was supposed to be the end. It turns out fire is just another way of reading.
Oct 28, 2026
by Salomé Arbeláez Quintero
A colonial room in Cartagena, a slow ceiling fan, rum with melting ice, and a heat that might be the weather and might be someone.
Oct 28, 2026
by Mikkel Brahe Østergaard
She came in to cover a man's name on her hip. Five sessions, one needle, and a tattooist in Copenhagen who should never have started wanting to be the name underneath.
Oct 25, 2026
by Natsue Hayakawa-Ono
When he ended it, she gave back his key. She did not tell him about the copy. A quiet, unsettling story of love that refuses to leave the room.
Oct 25, 2026
by Mateo Ferrandiz Quiroga
A piano tuner in Buenos Aires is hired to keep a dead man's Pleyel exactly as he left it: a little flat. Every Thursday. For as long as she can bear it.
Oct 24, 2026
by Jonaki Rajkonwar
A long ballad from the banks of the Luit: a boatman's wife, a lover with a lantern, and a river that has loved her longer than either of them and will not share.
Oct 24, 2026
by Nour Abi Khattar
A widow asks a Beirut perfumer to bottle the smell of the man she lost. He studies her for weeks, note by note, and the perfume slowly stops smelling of the dead.
Oct 23, 2026
by Simran Sharma
I will only find true liberationwhen you finally touch me completely.When you press yourself against my chest,sudden and strong,only then will my…
Sep 29, 2026