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Flash Fiction

Rearview Echoes

by Smita Das Jain

07:05 AM She boards in silence, fingers tapping her phone like it’s a lifeline. Her eyes are ringed in sleepless smudges, mascara barely clinging. ...read the full piece

Short Story

Stitched

by Anna Pedko

Her grandmother was the last person Svitlana went to say goodbye to before leaving. Not because she didn’t have any warm feelings toward Granny but ...read the full piece

"You Should Do As I Have Done" by Douglas Campbell

Short Story

When the Soil Softens

by Tilbe Akan

Another winter night. Again. There is no summer anymore, only winter and darkness. It’s almost always dark now. Every day, it seems the sun tries to ...read the full piece

Essay

The End of Endings

by Anneliz Marie Erese

1. How many endings have happened to me after good lovemaking? I cannot count. I refuse to count. The lovemaking is only a culmination of other things ...read the full piece

Flash Nonfiction

Changing the Story

by Ekow Agyine-Dadzie

I come from a place so small it is not even on the map: Awutu Oshimpo in the Central Region of Ghana. A quiet village with red dust, bare feet, and ...read the full piece

Essay

Your Anger Is Entrusted to Me

by Helin Yüksel

Dedicated to Leyla[1], all Leylas, and Ünzile[2], all Ünziles By growing up around 16 women from both sides, Mom’s and Dad’s, 10-year-old she already ...read the full piece

Poetry

Rooms :: Under Siege

by Elina Kumra

I. The shelter which is concrete-gray or maybe dust-white, and mattresseson the floor and little fists stick out of blankets andolive-brown cheeks and ...read the full piece

"Places we didn't travel to" by Anna Major

Poetry

Lacrimosa

by Rudrangshu Sengupta

1. Did you know there’s a flood in the mirror everytime you blink?The night sways in silk, in the hush of an ocean that never stops whispering. ...read the full piece

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Issue Fall '25

In Conversation

Jhumpa Lahiri — The Writer Who Changed Her Own Tongue

Love and Its Many Tints — A Review of Juhea Kim’s “A Love Story From the End of the World”

A Woman’s Life, Out of Line — A Review of “Girls Who Stray” by Anisha Lalvani

A Brief and Personal History of Literary Translingualism — An Interview with Natasha Lvovich

News & Events

Tint Journal Author in Best Microfiction 2026

Tint Journal Authors Awarded with Pushcart Prize(s)

Fall '25: Out Now!

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