Nora Glickman is Professor of Spanish at Queens College. A playwright, scholar, and educator, she was born in Argentina and has written extensively about contemporary Latin American literature. She is the author of two collections of short stories. Yashin Azadebigi is...

"... The Grasshoppers invade my head, and their buzzing sounds are mingled with sounds of Mino's nails being pulled against the wall...." Marjan Sadeghi, a writer living in Iran, has a master's degree in communications. So far, he has published two collections of...

"Watching the girls swim was one of the few activities that brought together the Junior and Middle Houses. For the hour that we watched the Marys crawling, butterflying, back- and breast stroking, we were of one mind. The juniors jostled on the benches in their common...

I was completely alone for three weeks. The dead were around, however. Their snoring voices. Their headless movement from one side of the field to the other…..   Majid Saberi has a bachelor's degree in dramatic literature and a master's degree in TV production....

" This is my effect on people, on women in particular. I returned my attention to the hand. Soon a small crowd gathered as if the hand were some sort of sax-playing street performer. They squinted their eyes and made low sounds of wonder. I picked it up, feeling...