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In this short story by Hungarian writer Rita Halász a mother and her partner tensely await the homecoming of her teenaged daughter.

This poem by Slovak poet Mária Ferenčuchová is a hypnotic meditation on the end and rebirth, a chillingly personal image of intimacy.

In this short story, like in a bad dream, we are plunged from daily life to wandering a strange town, hoping for a route back.

In this short story by Hungarian writer Tibor Noé Kiss, a woman comes to terms with her mother’s death, while looking back on a mysterious chapter of her love life.

When his wife leaves for a business trip, Géza enters into a passionate love affair with a flexible and rubber-lined companion.

A poem by Czech poet Lenka Kuhar Daňhelová in Bob Hýsek’s translation.

A poem by Hungarian poet Lili Hanna Seres, in Timea Sipos’s translation.

The speaker describes the sounds and movement of bugs, birds, and nature, while waiting for war, as if they were impervious to human events.

In this long poem by Ukrainian poet Iryna Shuvalova, language is found empty and ineffective, and the poet still more powerless than before.