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Story for the Sleepless
“I don’t have anything to give you. I don’t even have a job, yet.”
“You needn’t much,” it replied. “Just tell me a story."

Farida Sobieh
Feb 26, 2024


Tender Time
Reflections on working on Tender Time - a collaborative artistic research project - and visiting the exhibition in Venice.

Nora Naeve
Feb 26, 2024


Taking My Other Daughter Swimming
The third one in a series of poems on swimming in a public swimming pool after Corona.

Martin Cathcart Frödén
Feb 26, 2024


Burya 4: Chapter 2
Burya 4 continues with the captain having a strange and unsettling experience.

Amr Abbas
Feb 26, 2024


Refractions - Part VI
"They hung suspended in darkness. Palm touching palm, skin against bone." - The final part of Refractions.

Merle Emrich
Feb 26, 2024


Long After Sunrise
"cursed the self in the mirror
for not opening the windows wide at dawn
to hear the songbirds singing"

Merle Emrich
Feb 26, 2024


To Love a Stranger
"I'm in love with my neighbor. Not always and not everywhere, just in the evening, when the world is hidden in darkness and I see her."

India Wittmershaus
Feb 11, 2024


Taking My Daughter Swimming Again
"She emerges though as water." A poem about swimming in a public swimming pool after Corona.

Martin Cathcart Frödén
Feb 11, 2024


Important Life Lessons: A Guide on How to Take a Bus
Reflections on riding a bus - or trying to - across the world.

Julia Glatthaar
Feb 11, 2024


Love Poem for Nasr
"The quiet blue darkening is falling from the cut of a strange flower." A poem by Indigo Gabriel.

Indigo Gabriel
Feb 11, 2024


What Waits and Dreams in the Deep
"In the evenings, the mist would rise. Children cried and even dogs trembled and howled in their sleep. People died, deprived of sleep."

Merle Emrich
Feb 11, 2024


Foul, Falafel and Fries
Foul, falafel, and fries... Maggie—who sometimes cooks—showcases her take on the most traditional Egyptian meal!

Maggie Taher
Feb 11, 2024


Things Left Unsaid
“Because where they stomp, someone laughs, where they land, another giggles,” he spoke.

Amr Abbas
Jan 28, 2024
Published by Cálice Magazine (Malmö, Sweden)
ISSN: 3035-9031
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