Articles tagged ‘Fiction’.
It’s CI’s birthday! Two. How would you live without us? Let us know! Congratulate us. Conditions of congratulating us: 1. No hate bloggers...
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By Jeremiah Ganicoche* You know when you’re facebook-stalking your ex and you find out that she’s married and your fucken world falls apart? Well,...
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By Mahsati Ganjavi (12th century). English version by David and Sabrineh Fideler The pathway finally opened When my heart came to rule in the world o...
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By Heberto Padilla Translated by Andrew McKenna I live in Cuba. I’ve always lived in Cuba. Those years of wandering the world that people have ...
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by Dogen (1200 – 1253) Like tangled hair, The circular delusion Of beginning and end, When straightened out, A dream no longer. Dogen, sometimes...
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A CERTAIN man was wont to tell his son, while thrashing him, that he would never come to any good. The boy grew tired of these rebukes, and ran away f...
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By Heberto Padilla (1932-2000) From Out of the Game Translated by Andrew McKenna Cuban poets dream no more (even at night). They’ll close the do...
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by Yakut (Anonymous, 19th century) My words are tied in one With the great mountains, With the great rocks, With the great trees, In one with my body...
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By Jeremiah Ganicoche It had been a short, hectic day and I was glad it was over. There were some reports I had not gotten around to but that my manag...
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by Pawnee (Anonymous, 19th century) English version by Daniel Brinton Let us see, is this real, Let us see, is this real, Let us see, is this real, T...
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By Jeremiah Ganicoche* How did it get like this? Tired of the way things are turning out? Do you think something is wrong but not sure what? Want to d...
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By Kabir, 15th century The Lord is in Me The Lord is in me, and the Lord is in you, As life is hidden in every seed. So rubble your pride, my friend, ...
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By Jan ‘Yarn’ Wositzky There’s a hidden history at Castlemaine. It’s where the political action that led to the Eureka Stockade began. Today ...
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By Edgar Allan Poe TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my se...
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by Jusammi Chikako (14th century) On this summer night All the household lies asleep, And in the doorway, For once open after dark, Stands the moon, b...
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By Jeremiah Ganicoche* I’ve never played Cluedo but if you were ever dealt my card that is what it would say. It’s a killer hand. They don’t tel...
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By Patrick Kavanagh O stony grey soil of Monaghan The laugh from my love you thieved You took the gay child of my passion And gave me your clod-concei...
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Episode 8, by Josie Emery The Tweet Files A month of writing, distilled from a Twitter diary. We tweet in 140 characters – including spaces and ...
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By Heberto Padilla Translated by Andrew McKenna Tell the truth. Tell, at least, your truth. And afterwards let it happen, whatever: they smash your p...
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By Jeremiah Ganicoche* When I was 15, I saw my familiar spirit. My room was in a bungalow in the backyard and most nights around that age I would stay...
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By Adam Ford* are you ready for this? forget I asked there’s no way you could be ready for what has to follow the necessity of the next i...
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Story is everything, everything is story Episode 7, by Josie Emery To read what follows. I offer Allen Ginsberg’s advice on such matters and paraphr...
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The Ojibway (Chippewa) are one of the most numerous nations of Native Americans. Traditional Ojibway lands are centered in Michigan, Minnesota, Saskat...
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By T Crofton Croker Mrs Sullivan fancied that her youngest child had been exchanged by “fairies theft”, and certainly appearances warrante...
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by Anna Akhmatova I taught myself to live simply and wisely, to look at the sky and pray to God, and to wander long before evening to tire my superflu...
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By Josephine Emery Episode 6 The other day I gave a hitcher a lift from Castlemaine to Maldon. He was stumbling along the road carrying a metal detect...
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by Edith Kanaka’ole (Hawaiian, 20th century) E ho mai Ka ike mai luna mai e O na mea huna no eau O na mele e E ho mai E ho mai E ho mai Grant u...
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This story was submitted anonymously to CI. The writer appears seriously unhinged, but that hasn’t stopped us from publishing any of the others....
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By Max McClure My heart takes root in her and grips with its nail, holds on like bark on the rod, to me she is joy’s tower and palace and chambe...
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By Roque Dalton Translated by Andrew McKenna I was expelled from the Communist Party long before they excommunicated me from the Catholic Church. That...
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Part 5 By Josie Emery I stand at the back door with my morning coffee in my hand. A bird bursts into song in the garden and then flutters from its tre...
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Roberto Fernández Retamar (La Habana, 1930) Translated by Andrew McKenna But what matters is the revolution the rest are just words in the background...
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By T. Crofton Croker The ancient burial-place of the Cantillon family was on an island in Ballyheigh Bay. This island was situated at no great distanc...
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By Patrick Kavanagh On Raglan Road of an autumn day I saw her first and knew That her dark hair would weave a snare that I might one day rue I saw the...
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