We’re delighted to nominate “The Border” by Solomon Samson for the AKO Caine Prize for African Writing!
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Issue 27 | Fall 2022
Issue twenty-seven invites you to a chimeric gathering of wanders, misfits, rebels, playboys, and survivors.
Featuring entrancing new short fiction, poetry, CNF, translations, and art from Robert Glück, Julia Kohli (translated by Rob Myatt), Jasleena Grewal, Solomon Samson, Dominic Blewett, Laurie Stone, Stacey Levine, Nina Schuyler, James Warner, Carla Bessa (translated by Elton Uliana), Alvin Lu, Lorelei Bacht, Beatriz Rocha (translated by Grant Schutzman), Réka Nyitrai, David C. Hall, Rolla Barraq (translated by Muntather Alsawad and Jeffrey Clapp), Eva-Maria Sher, Cameron Morse, and Richard Hanus.
The Border
Solomon Samson
“For a while, she stares at him as if he belongs to a race once thought extinct. This is not part of her job. She is just trying to go the extra mile. But the look on the boy’s face tells her that it is not time to slow down.”