The short story ‘In the Summer of Old Love’ by Sara Flood. With illustration by Amir Shahlan Amiruddin. Everyone­ was looking for love that summer, and no one could find it, and so people started doing the natural thing and going back to the poor fools who had loved them before. By Sara Flood Everyone­ was looking for love that summer, and no one could find it, and so people started... 

The short story ‘The Green Parakeet’s Tale’ by Nicole Idar. With illustration by Amir Shahlan Amiruddin. O charmed listener, allow me to perch on your shoulder and I will tell you my story; consider what I’m about to say a fable if you like, a tale heard by fire-light long ago. Illustration by Amir Shahlan Amiruddin. Story by Nicole Idar Illustration by Amir Shahlan Amiruddin O charmed... 

"Whales," by Sergey Ryzhov A Twentieth-Century prose writer prancing about in Twenty-First Century hyperspace By Alan Cheuse I grew up as a reader—and writer— long lines, on the Homeric epics, and long stories, in Chaucer, Boccacio, and the English and Spanish and French and Italian and Russian and American novels… But with many— or most? You tell me— heads atwitter with short...