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Issue Spring '26

Short Story

Promise Me Always

by Jayden Bird

Afghanistan, 2004 Nausea rolled through my empty stomach, the damp air heavy with the stench of urine and feces. Six weeks we’d been in this hell. Six ...read the full piece

Flash Fiction

Papanca

by Pamela Smith

It’s two in the morning, and she’s in the bathroom, bleach coats the floor, thick, suffocating.It spreads like a blanket no one ever asked for.The ...read the full piece

Short Story

Proof of Magic

by Jowita Bydlowska

Inside me there is a flattened, pear-shaped organ called a pancreas, and a collection of other slick, cooperating parts I barely think about unless ...read the full piece

Essay

A Bridge Between

by D.G. Rosales

We were halfway through assembling the dresser for the baby's room when we gave up. The kind of giving up that happens in late pregnancy when ...read the full piece

"Never Had Much Choice In It" by Benjamin Malay

Essay

The Bitter Smell of Sagebrush

by Aizhan Yesbolatova

When we approached the village, I didn’t recognize the house. It felt strange because, in my memory, it stood there so vividly; yet, when the driver ...read the full piece

Essay

Algorithmic Womanhood

by Paulina Jarantewicz

I don’t remember when I stopped looking at my body and started auditing it. It happens at 6 a. m. now, still in bed, before my eyes have fully opened. ...read the full piece

"Learning to Live off the Land" by Ann Keeling

Poetry

To Hold the Falling Light

by Melissa Luz

here —i try to hold what won’t stay and my fingersbecome cracked riverbedswhere things meant to be water refuse to settle since the first timei saw ...read the full piece

Poetry

X-humation

by Athena Melliar

A docupoem (Sestina) Shall we walk? I’ll be your guide here, in the most chthonian rooms, stanze of dei morti — dead you’ll ever be: Follow me through ...read the full piece

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In Conversation

Other

Writing the Same Body Twice — Microfiction, Self-Translation, and Controlled Loss

by Azul Rivera

August 3rd, 2026

Review

Surviving and Community on the Fringes of Society — A Review of “The Emperor of Gladness” by Ocean Vuong

by Luka Peters

July 26th, 2026

Profile

Jack Kerouac — The Restless Writer Who Put America on the Road

by Patrichia Dcruze

July 18th, 2026

Review

The Woman Behind the Goddess — A Review of “The Forest of Enchantments” by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

by Jana Yin

June 22nd, 2026

... more In Conversation

News & Events

NYC Poetry Festival 2025; Matthew Monroy, John Salimbene & Lisa Schantl © Tint

Tint Journal writers’ locales:

Issue Spring '26

In Conversation

Writing the Same Body Twice — Microfiction, Self-Translation, and Controlled Loss

Surviving and Community on the Fringes of Society — A Review of “The Emperor of Gladness” by Ocean Vuong

Jack Kerouac — The Restless Writer Who Put America on the Road

The Woman Behind the Goddess — A Review of “The Forest of Enchantments” by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

News & Events

Tint goes NYC Poetry Festival 2026

Tint goes STERRRN Fest 2026

Spring '26: Out Now!

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