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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

"Mechanical Life No. Y" by Radoslav Rochallyi

Short Story

Flyers

by Galina Itskovich

America doesn’t exist. I’ve been there.— Alain Resnais, Mon oncle d’Amerique On a Friday afternoon, a phone rings. It’s too soon to call her my new ...read the full piece

"Reaching for the Sun" by Chynna Williams

Flash Fiction

Dovetail

by Chelsea Allen

This is again my summer of space. Space sleeping between me and the wall, twisting and turning and wailing right until the dawn lilac. Space taking ...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

Essay

New Words, New Worlds

by Alina Zollfrank

It snoozes on the bookshelf, slightly dusty and, upon further inspection, as battered as I remember. The soft, sunflower-yellow cover is warped and ...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

"The Process of Creation" by Atzin Garcia

Poetry

Wallflowers Are Black

by Hajer Requiq

I am not the same woman you left.That woman was chinaware, pottery-work.I have nothing to do with things that break.My mother gave birthto a huddle of ...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

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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

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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