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Blue in Travel Abstract

Mahmoud Elmardi, a Sudanese visual artist and novelist, was born in 1988 in the historic city of Bahri, Khartoum—a region renowned for its rich cultural...

Blue

The first time she sees one, it is by the hidden creek, past the back field where they walk, looking for arrowheads. She is with...

My Dinner with Hiro

Images of pavilions, kimonos and bonsai had captured my attention since my parents returned from a trip to Japan when I was ten, dumping brochures...

The Morning Had Become Routine

We had fallen into a pattern of sameness. What we said, what we wore, what we did each day, down to waking at 7am, coffee...

A View from a White Pine Tree

Forest fires are a big problem – the smell of woodsmoke is overwhelming at the moment. I’ve had enough of others speaking for me. But...

Javelina Summer

I’m blaming the rabbits – they started the whole routine. As new arrivals in rural Arizona, we were surprised by the size of the jack...

The Quest to Kars

Beneath a sky heavy with the promise of winter, Kars had arrived, not merely as a destination, but as a revelation. Angelic flakes danced beyond...

You Can't See Everything From The Car

“I have a surprise,” Michael announced. “Guess where we’re going for our anniversary?”

Always Take The Window Seat

A former “Eastern European” charts Tirana’s makeover for Western travellers—until an untouched bar reveals what Albania may have given up to join the club.

Travelling in Taxis

In Mumbai, when family burdens weigh heavy, two taxi drivers offer unexpected kinship.

A Bowl, a Spoon, and a Small Redemption

A Black woman navigating Shanghai’s gaze—admired husband, photographed curiosity, invisible self—finds unexpected dignity in a noodle shop owner’s simple gesture of care.

On Finding a Corpse at Niagara Falls

Two trans travellers witness a corpse at Niagara Falls but aren’t believed—an erasure mirroring colonial borders, exploited land, and bodies deemed unworthy of dignity.

Going to Meet the Girls

An American woman accompanies two younger male friends to Shanghai’s sex worker marketplace, confronting complicity, loneliness, and the barriers dividing women.

When the Land Looks Back

A budding filmmaker travelling his own country learns that to encounter a place is not to consume it, but to look, to listen, and sometimes...

the story refuses its sound

She fell first in her own story and then into mine nine stories down onto a net that caught her enough to save her

disqualifying discovery

I heard someone call for ‘magnetic local’ stories the more magnetic the better and I know they meant well even quoted so-and-so famous by way...

Alarmed

After the fourth airport in consecutive Scandinavian countries shunted me through a door labelled Nothing to Declare, I decided I couldn’t stay silent any longer,...

Kea Call

I hardly noticed when the train started moving. It was the shift of the outside landscape that tipped me off, rather than motion beneath my...

Firecrackers in the Desert

The night is black. I can’t read your features, but I know you’re scowling. We’ve been held captive behind your blockade for the past six...