Term: Flash Fiction

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Mirror Mirror, It's Your Call

“Time holds the fate. of me and you / The mirror lies but the images are true.” I used to laugh at these words, etched...

What time is it?

The man in orange asked. It was after midnight when I took the garbage out to the street to throw it in the trash can....

The Flood

The laminated pages stick to my fingers. “Kaffee mit Bailey’s, bitte.” My tongue trips over words that no longer fit in my mouth. Twenty years ago,...

The Colour Beneath Lisbon

You can’t own Lisbon. You only rent her breath. João scrapes mildew from the kitchen tiles of his uncle’s old flat, the blue glaze flaking...

Mbele

He sleeps beneath the closed bank, counting breaths like coins. Yesterday he wore a suit and signed approvals; Today the city erases him. When the cough came, the...

Nkwa Obi

He signs the treaty at dawn, ink steady, face calm. By noon, the bridge will fall and the convoy with it. Everyone trusts him; that is the...

Ashé

At dawn, Ayo crawls from the burned kola grove, the only man breathing. The militia’s boots still echo in his skull. He tastes ash, counts names like...

Magasin d’âmes

On my umpteenth visit to Docteur Arnaud – his many reassurances notwithstanding – he joked to me about a possibility. I was desperate. ‘Well, they’re...

notes concerning the arc de triomphe roundabout

“Buckle up. We’re here.” I turn around to check on Diego and Mollie in the backseat. Diego is running a rosary through his fingers. Mollie...

Issue 15: Paris

Paris has long been the site of opulence, resistance, rebellion, and style. It has inspired great writing and writers, philosophy and philosophers. In this collection,...

Crashing into the Swamp

No one expects a plane on approach to that sunny climate to crash. But it does, and when it does, it fragments and sinks, everyone...

Second Shift

It is an incorporeal time of day, hour eighteen of open eyes. Their aprons are smeared with fingerprinted berry-red, which looks like butcher shop blood...

Potholes and Toasted Marshmallows

Rain hammers the concrete forests of Sydney’s skyline. “Operational demands Lucy,” the transplant director sighs. I hang up, throat tight. Violet looks up from my...

High Tide

I walked to Westminster Bridge, where the Houses of Parliament stretched high, imprinted on the evening sky. The moon pushed through faded pink and cream,...

Issue 14: Survival

Welcome to Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature’s 14th edition, on the theme of ‘survival.’ Many thanks to all contributors and the editors...

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A Palm Tree Untrimmed

“Your neighbour is in clear violation,” the City Inspector says, snapping a photo of Arlo’s tree on the other side of the fence. “A palm...

Pepper

My hand gently cradles a chocolate habanero, I smile remembering the time you thought the name meant it was sweet. Your face flushed as your...

Issue 13: Fire

Welcome to Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature’s 13th edition, on the theme of ‘fire.’ Fire: /ˈfʌɪə/ origin: Old English fȳr (noun), fȳrian...

In the Hall of Forbidding Signage

The Hall of Forbidding Signage, an exhibit in the Museum of Urban Life, was a memorial of warning plaques, notices, and placards, screwed on every...

The Woman Who Marries

The buildings had grown fangs, the street lamps whiskers. Billboards flocked to the skyline, pecked at star-scatter. Town cars beaked their way between gnarled claws...

A Dark Night

Night falls softly upon the land, warm and comforting like a childhood blanket, wrapping around her with an array of celestial freckles. The shade of...

Issue 12: Cities

Welcome to Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature’s 12th edition. In this issue, we present work on the theme of ‘cities,’ whether in...

Issue 11: Ecology

Welcome to Panorama’s 11th edition. In this issue we turn our attention to ecology—from the word’s earliest roots to present-day ecologies which span people, organisms,...

Issue 10: Intimacy

Welcome to Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature’s 10th edition. This issue focuses on INTIMACY in all its forms from a closeness and...

Issue 9: Borders

In this issue we have work from India, Nigeria, Philippines, Israel, Netherlands, UK, USA, Brazil, South Korea, Thailand, Germany, Italy, and more. In many ways...

Issue 8: Space

Welcome to Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature’s SPACE issue. From the very small to the enormity of our imaginations, essays grow from...

Issue 7: Dawn

Welcome to Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature’s DAWN issue. This bright, awakening, and challenging composition comprises a multitude of world views, places,...

Issue 6: War & Peace

Welcome to Panorama’s WAR & PEACE issue. This collection, months in the making, deeply explores the themes of war and peace, with a special emphasis...

Issue 5: Lost

Welcome to Panorama‘s long-awaited LOST, our fifth issue, which we are dedicating to the great traveller, Anthony Bourdain, whose recent passing has affected us all....

Issue 4: Seen

Perhaps more than any other time in recent history, how we see places and one another will determine what happens next to our human family....

Issue 3: Open

We present our panoramic vision of travel literature in our Spring ‘Open’ issue. A carefully curated collection of travel poetry, fiction, and memoir, the selections...

Issue 2: Treasures

Welcome to Panorama’s second issue. Panorama exists not only to publish extraordinary, diverse travel literature and imagery, but to widen the definition of what travel...

Weekend Reading

Read all articles, essays, poems, and stories published on Panorama on the weekends in between issues.

Issue 1: Firsts

Welcome to Panorama‘s first issue. Our purpose is to shift the perspective of travel literature and imagery towards a more panoramic, modern worldview, and we...