The Flag Room at the Helsinki Games
A short story about a widowed seamstress at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics who has two days and one length of blue wool to sew a flag she has…
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#Historical Fiction
The Price of One Passage to Santos
A short story told in letters: a Japanese coffee picker in 1930s Brazil saves for three years to bring his sister over, then learns what…
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The Copyist Who Fell in Love with Marginalia
In a monastery library where scribes are forbidden to add anything of their own, one copyist begins conversing with the tiny notes left by…
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