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Michał Nowak reads his short story, “A Little Faith, Man,” from the Labor issue. For the week of May 1-7 we’re offering a free pdf of the entire issue, available here. Listen now: Michał Nowak is a comics creator and writer from San Francisco. He has studied at the University of San Francisco and Portland Community College, and is a contributing editor to Frontera. His writing…
Interview with Aduri and Translator Shubomoy Haque, Savar, Bangladesh The Rana Plaza collapse was an accident that occurred on April 24, 2013, in Savar, Bangladesh, in which Rana Plaza, an eight-story commercial building with five garment factories inside, collapsed, killing 1,134 garment workers. We, an American woman and a male NGO officer, enter Aduri’s one-room home. Our seats, her bed; she squats on…
I search the blue dawn for her fire. She scents of smoke and burnt matches. I steer her back to the house. My stepfather will wake soon, demand bread and tea, snatch her by the hair, rattle until the lights turn on. Sometimes, I want to push her towards the open gate, watch as she crosses the slip of road right into the side…
______________________________ Image: “Urban intervention 2018” by Chifumi Krohom is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
eyes swelling like a housing bubble and before i can even introduce myself, asks What should I do? The bank is trying to take my house. I have a family. I have no way to pay. What should I do? i should have something useful to say. i’m a lawyer. but all i can think of is my studio apartment carpeted with dirty laundry how…