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CATEGORY SIX

By Summer Eldemire May 19, 2025

A love story spiraling through myth and memory, “Category Six” captures the emotional force of a storm that defies all known categories and the island that shapes it.

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Soda Byor, Boda Byor

By Onaiza Drabu April 15, 2025

‘You know as well as I do, this forest opens its passages to those who tell stories. Stories, after all, show the way, don’t they?’

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The Chicken Line

By Jendayi Brooks-Flemister March 4, 2024

What had these poor half-beasts done, besides exist in an ever-changing world that didn’t want to understand them?

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On Farms

By Isabelle Lim February 5, 2024

For a country that has lost touch with any mainstream practice of farming, what does it mean for us to want to farm again?

Guernica Global Climate & Environment

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The Middle Field

By Ayla Douglas January 16, 2024

A doctor told me the heart never forgets a child. If true, hers guards the memory of me like a jealous secret.

Guernica Global

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A Loud and Hungry Darkness

By Samar Batrawi December 11, 2023

We were never starving, but we were kept just hungry enough to feel it.

Guernica Global Conflict

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Komorebi

By Tanmayi Gidh November 6, 2023

Somewhere on another continent, in a city far away, on the twenty-fourth of January, a clock chimed at midnight, indicating we had run out of time.

Guernica Global Climate & Environment

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Mousey Miracles

By C. V. Joshi, translated by Uma Shirodkar September 5, 2023

A Marathi fairytale in which a mouse comes to an orphaned girl's rescue.

Asia & OceaniaGender

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To Be in a State of War

By Alexei Perry Cox July 6, 2023

Pity, when it exists, is tribal. In other words: I feel sorry for you because you are not like me.

Guernica Global

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Maybe Now, Maybe Never

By Ukamaka Olisakwe June 5, 2023

A dressmaker, on a mission to rescue her niece, may end up saving herself.

Guernica Global

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The Final Landscape

By Gowhar Yaqoob April 5, 2023

An aging artist pontificates over the utility of his art in a place of perpetual war.

Guernica Global

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Wajo

By Tjak S. Parlan, translated by Clarissa Goenawan December 15, 2022

Two old acquaintances walk by an artificial river, recuperating all that they've lost in their conversation.

Guernica Global Climate & Environment

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Awa’s Story

By Hinemoa Jones December 6, 2022

We come from just one of the seeds that were grafted and scattered, trying to connect to roots that have been shattered.

Guernica Global Asia & OceaniaFamily & Relationships

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A Souvenir of Me

By Kemi Falodun November 15, 2022

Fear crept in one night, quietly, as stream water meandering on a hot day.

Guernica Global

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Koru

By Nadine Anne Hura November 10, 2022

What is life but a series of lessons in holding on fiercely and letting go gently?

Guernica Global Family & Relationships

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Cockroach

By Yee Heng Yeh October 27, 2022

A child learns to care for the very thing that terrifies him.

Guernica Global Family & Relationships

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To Live a Little

By Phodiso Modirwa October 3, 2022

As a man's mind slips away, his family bears the weight of slowly losing the person they love.

Guernica Global Family & Relationships

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A Dalit Mother’s Accounts

by Sarita Pariyar, translated by Rabi Thapa September 19, 2022

A few tales about the lives and struggles of mothers in Nepal.

Guernica Global

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Cain’s Feast

By Aniela Rodríguez, translated from the Spanish by Elizabeth Bryer September 15, 2022

A Mexican story that reads like a biblical tale of love and infidelity and a chronicle of a murder at once.

Religion

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Parasite

by Bilal Hasan Minto, translated from the Urdu by Bilal Tanweer August 8, 2022

A man’s paranoia ends up costing him more than his peace of mind.

Guernica Global Asia & Oceania

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Haunts

By Gregory Ng Yong He July 26, 2022

How easily illicit pleasures can feel like some kind of freedom under constraint.

Guernica Global

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Seven Months with the Witch Who Had the Broom

By Mustafa Taj Aldeen Almosa, translated from the Arabic by Kenda Flehan July 14, 2022

A young protester in Syria hitches a ride with a witch and leaves the world behind.

Guernica Global

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The Seven-Year Cycle

By ArunDitha July 5, 2022

This is my introduction to dying. It is a good place to die — in a Changi Women’s Prison cell.

Guernica Global Bodies & Nature

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rising to the earth’s height

By Raquel Salas Rivera, translated from the Spanish by Carla Canseco June 21, 2022

The story of the mimosa pudica and the snowshoe hare.

Guernica Global Bodies & Nature

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The Nightmare

By Minal Dave, translated from Gujarati by Rita Kothari June 9, 2022

During communal riots in Gujarat, a Hindu woman battles against a self-percieved threat from a Muslim co-passenger.

Guernica Global Asia & Oceania

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The Man Who Touches Waves

By Kim Soom, translated by Sean Lin Halbert May 26, 2022

A blind man takes us along on his way to the sea.

Guernica Global

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Song of the Lake

By Tamanda Kanjaye May 12, 2022

Auralgraphs and meditations from Malawi

Guernica Global Africa

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The Yellow Chair

By Madeleine Slavick April 28, 2022

In a hybrid text, Madeleine Slavick registers her protest against the gradual erosion of civil rights in Hong Kong.

Guernica Global Asia & Oceania

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El Dorado, City of Black Gold

By Aliyah Khan April 12, 2022

No ship ent coming fuh save Guyana and bring we destiny. This time, like every other time we failed to do so, we going have to wuk together fuh save weself.

Guernica Global Americas

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The Time Is Right About Now

By Alex Vella Gera April 7, 2022

A picnic ends in a brawl between two families divided by politics.

Guernica Global Family & Relationships

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Fault Line

By Ngala Chome March 24, 2022

An extremist group that began and grew in Somalia takes root in neighboring Kenya — and looks even further outward.

Guernica Global Africa

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A Well No One Can Reach

By Omar Al Jadhee, translated by Leonie Rau March 15, 2022

A haunted well is the only chance of survival for a child lost in the desert.

Guernica Global Arts & Culture

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Famished

By Mridula Chari February 15, 2022

The trick of the state is to persuade you that hunger is a problem too big to solve.

Guernica Global Government

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Angel Lust

By Yasser Abdellatif, translated by Robin Moger January 25, 2022

Everything is suspended, and into the void steps a powerful curiosity which draws them out of the bedroom and downstairs to see the truth of it for themselves.

Guernica Global Arts & Culture

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Inside People

By Mariana Martínez Esténs January 18, 2022

A Mexican journalist takes an introspective look at her work inside prisons.

Guernica Global AmericasJustice