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Short Story

Practical

by Johan Smits

They said it’d be risky, that I was being taken for a ride, that it wouldn’t be worth it and God knows what else, but I’m glad that in the end I took ...read the full piece

"Flowers for the Forgotten" by Michael Pacheco

Short Story

Unearthing

by Christian Nikolaus Opitz

Notes to the reader: One, the present text is a collage, borrowing from the writings of Elisabeth Bürstenbinder (pseud. E. Werner), Claire von Glümer, ...read the full piece

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

Essay

Exits Exist

by Karen Cheung

The city is frothing with bodies and I am pacing, collecting. I landed in Hong Kong on November 16, 2023, and found that I no longer speak its ...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

Essay

A Farce in the Cultural Revolution

by Sue Tong

A Child’s Handwriting Sparked a Storm When the Cultural Revolution broke out in 1966, our family — branded among the “Black Five Categories” — was ...read the full piece

Poetry

Exiles

by A.D. Capili

You remind me the blind in the bedroom is broken: I need to call somebody in Dutch, which already makes my thinking stutter;the cat peed again outside ...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

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

A Plurality of Women’s Lives — A Review of “Talking With Boys” by Tayyba Kanwal

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Tint Journal Author in Best Microfiction 2026

Tint Journal Authors Awarded with Pushcart Prize(s)

Fall '25: Out Now!

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