Fiction

Music in their Eyes It’s windy this morning; the trees growing along the shore let loose their leaves, sending them to the centre of the lake. This lake is deep, and full of hungry leeches. Its shores are silty. The area is enclosed by a high electric fence, with cameras everywhere. The white-hulled expedition yacht […]

The Miraculous Man It’s perfectly simple. That’s just how it will be. When the moment is right, and we’re allowed to, I will marry Gvidas. Because the right moment eventually comes for everyone. On that day, I’ll wear a long white dress. My cousin Silvija, just back from London, will fasten the tiny silk buttons

leaving lazdynai           lazdynai is so distant from where i live – new town and the neighborhoods surrounding it: old town, the station, krasnūcha and the center – that if it hadn’t been the half-year i spent in the video rental place, established in the lazdynai iki supermarket, the whole neighborhood

Water is a Hypocrite What am I to do with my life? How am I supposed to know what’s right? I can’t help the way I feel, But my life has been so overprotected. Britney Spears, “Overprotected” It was 2001. The year when Vancouver was celebrating the 50th anniversary of the removal of the potlach

••• The alarm says it’s 6:45am. I open my eyes and can’t get out of bed for a long time. I roll over and try to get back to sleep in an attempt to convince myself that nothing bad will come out of a few more hours. 9am. The neighbours’ kid starts crying. Even though

The Well For Regimantas who has taken me to all the magical places of his childhood   THE FIRST SECRET. THE WELL 1. LITTLE BROTHER Everything will look different in the morning, my little lime blossom. I can see you. I can see how that thin husk of childhood sleep peels away from you. You

Baden-Baden Time Most people usually want to go to New York, Paris or Rome, I’ve always wanted to go to Baden- Baden. For me that valley town has associations with peace and quiet, comfort and a slow way of life. There’s a shortage of that in one’s everyday life. The saying ‘all life’ becomes relative

The Seventh Sketch In the 1990s, an insurmountable crisis hit the Soviet Union. Nothing helped, not charm nor decrees from the Communist Party, or the glasnost and perestroika declared by the secretary general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev. The shelves in shops were empty, and Soviet leaders started expressing the

HEALTH CARE CENTRE /I/ Unwilling to lose his orientation, Gabr closed his eyes tight and moved in response to the acoustic sensors of the centre. All his life, until the horrific event that had befallen him, his orientation in ordinary space had been good. Ordinary space consisted of turns of allowed complexity: just like his

Chapter 8 Hanover. No, hold it, not like that. We get out. In Hanover. I get out and stand there. In Hanover. Ya hear – in Hanover! All together now: Ha-no-ver! Ha-no-ver! Dig it? I’m in Hanover! I’m weak at the knees. My mind reels. If only my classmates could see me now – in