ZHTWEET CHARITY BY BEN UMAYAM 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 111

Why doesn’t she go back to the cathedral with the other beggars? I am so close to making my airfare. She is spoiling it all, spoiling the whole thing.

BEYOND THE TREES BY MARTIN PERLMAN 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 111

These youngsters were depending on me to deliver a verdict. Decades of conducting business meetings held little sway here. Family squabbles about who should inherit what didn’t matter. It all came down to timing, contact, and sequence.

COVID LOVE BY MAXWELL SEBASTIAN BURCHETT 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 111

Love at first sight must actually be a thing, something for which there is no protection, no masks.

KEEP MOVING BY MATTI BEN-LEV 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 111

Glass hissed. Our footsteps echoed, broken fragments of sound. Scraps of wood, door frames and chair legs, and dressers hiding in corners. Papers scattered across a concrete floor: diagrams and patient files and surveys and intake forms and children’s drawings.