He woke up early in the morning. The night before, he had set his phone alarm to go to the bank first thing in the morning. He got dressed and rode his motorcycle. He wasn’t in the mood for breakfast, so he smoked a cigarette instead. When he arrived at the Sepah Bank branch, he […]...

When he opened his eyes, the ceiling of the room was spinning; from those spins that came to him every day and night. He jumped up, ran through the courtyard. He took the magpie cage off the tree and sat on the steps. He stared at the magpie’s eyes and opened the cage door. The […]...

In those years, the village had a different atmosphere. When we were children, our biggest worry and sadness was not being able to ride our wooden horses and race with our peers, pulling our horses to the finish line and hitting the target with our slingshots. We would go all the way to the end […]...

Our village is one of those ancient villages where our fathers, grandfathers, mothers, and grandmothers lived and a generation after another left and went away. Our village used to be very prosperous. We had a large garden with all kinds of fruit trees. Although the owner of the garden was the lord of the village, […]...

Short Story: “The Branch of Wishes” by Soraya Karimkhani...

Short Story: “Dance of Flames” written by Soroonaaz Sistani. It was raining so hard that it seemed like someone had drawn a knife across the biggest cloud in the sky. My mother sat in the middle of the room and put my brother next to the heater to open his shirt. I was sitting in […]...

Short Story: The Ability to See No Writing by Reza Salehinia. I was trying my best to tell my father exactly where it was. I was pointing with my hand to show him exactly where it was, but my father couldn’t see anything except for the TV antennas and I was slowly becoming disappointed. My […]...

Short Story: The Suitcase Written by Soronaz Sistani. سلام، من یک دانشجوی رشته مهندسی هستم Hello, I am a student majoring in engineering. Painting: Portraits of “Noble Aunt” by Reza Moradi. Poem: The Mammal Panda by Habib Musavi Bibalani. The panda is a mammal That writing about its mammalian nature Probably won’t be censored But […]...

Short Story: Meeting with Don Quixote in Tehran, written by Reza Salehiniya. I’m sorry, there is no Farsi text provided. Please provide the text so I can translate it for you. Painting: “Dance” by Masoumeh Mostafazadeh. من یک دانشجوی رشته مهندسی کامپیوتر هستم I am a computer engineering student. Poem: “The Time of Loneliness” by […]...

Short Story: Parade written by Ahmad Panahi Pour. Seven people, each with a harness in hand, are jumping out of the doors of crowded houses. With their hands and feet connected, and wearing wrist and ankle restraints! The rings of each wrist and ankle restraint are connected with 17-centimeter chains. The end of each left […]...

Short Story: The Commerce Bank, written by Avat Pouri. Dedicated to the eight citizens who were killed in 1359 (1980) by the shots of government snipers in front of the old police station in the city of Sanandaj, located on Sefri Street, and were buried in an empty land nearby. Later, a bank was built […]...

Short Story: The Series of Stories Written by Sam Aghabi. I saw him in a cafe. It was the first and last time we were supposed to see each other. These kinds of things are not a joke. They are related to the security issues of the country. That’s why we had to be careful, […]...