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“The Gift” by Daria Bezzadina

Available in original Ukrainian: “Подарунок” Дар’я Беззадіна Sashka pressed her numb feet to the warm side of the stove and

Available in English: The Gift by Daria Bezzadina Сашка притулила потерплі від незручного сидіння ноги до теплого боку груби й

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The corpses were washing down on the shore, brought by each relentless wave, piling up upon themselves, pathetic packets of

originally appeared in Three Crows Issue #5 Some years ago, when I was just a girl, my brother broke his

Bear? I ask my traveling companion. My teeth chatter so hard I’m afraid they’ll chop off my tongue. “Yes, Girl?”

Stones. Put them in your mouth and suck them. Squeeze them in your hand so tight your fingers bleed. Sitting

We look after our own in this circus. As long as I’m ringmaster we always will. The Riggers turned up

Ieva didn’t take any nonsense from monsters. She’d met her first at the age of eight. The pathetic thing took

Still roses decayed on the vines. The garden’s green was deep and brittle, shrivelled to the desiccated stylus of lifeless