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PSYCHIC EYE

I read the sign and climb a stair. The office door is smoky glass. Inside, a radio plays jazz. I go in. He points to a chair. He’s shabby, but he don’t look dumb. His voice is booze and cigarettes: a weary voice, full of regrets. A gumshoe, laid back, chewing gum. I tell him: “You’re a Psychic Eye. I…

Beyond Blank

Literature lightens the inborn loneliness of existence, reminding us that our deepest…

The Parable of the Prodigal Sun

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A star called Sol suddenly emerged from the computer screen without the slightest warning. ‘You might have knocked,’ muttered the writer, at last lowering his gaze towards the blindingly bright orb. Then, extending his left hand, he carefully adjusted the cosmic thermostat. He offered the star a cushioned chair, a…

Six Murders on My Wall

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The opening line of any narrative is a contract with the reader: it establishes voice, dictates tempo, and subtly outlines the boundaries of the world we are about to enter. But few openings in literary history demand as much of their readers, or offer quite so literal a contract, as…

A Typo in the Pavement

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Twelve minutes before midnight. The grand old clock in the spire didn’t tick. The sound was a heavy thudding resonance, like a munch. The mechanism swallowed the seconds whole, leaving behind a gelatinous silence that pooled around my ears. I reached into my coat pocket for a cigarette but pulled…
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Former diplomat and globetrotter, Dan Costinas is a versatile contemporary writer, translator, and editor. A true polyglot, he has authored and contributed to several dozen books spanning mainly fiction, essays, aphorisms, reviews and criticism, journalism, and poetry.

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