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- Izabela Morska
I have in front of me the catalogue for the exhibition Heavenly Beings. Neither Human nor Animal, which opened in the summer of 2018 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (+MSUM) [...]
- Patrycja Murzyniec-Kamińska
With every step taken on the creaky stairs and every shuddering breath, I knew I was getting closer to death. I could feel it watching me with its dilated pupil, excited and [...]
- Paulina Jakimowicz
Your Honor, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the prosecution and the defense, allow me to partake in this brief moment of honesty. It seems to me that you are surprised [...]
- Starling & Shrike
Nora stepped out of the bus into the dark. She found some solace in the long night rides that public transport offered. It gave her time to think, to wonder what could [...]
- Gabriela Woltman
My den had been disturbed. The little stone building had been abandoned many winters ago. Now, dilapidated and reclaimed by moss and fungi, its walls protected me from the harsh winds and [...]
- Natan Richert
It’s nearly dawn. I’m on my usual nocturnal walk, since I’m restless as of late anyway. I’d love to have someone walk along my side, but I live alone, and do not [...]
- Maja Zamiejska
It all started last fall when my dear mother crossed the dreadful bridge to join those residing in a place we believe, or at least hope, exists called the afterlife. One early [...]
- Beata Williamson
The following text was an assignment for the “practical English” course (PNJA) taught by Mr. Wojciech Kubiński (now Professor Kubiński) in the spring of 1984. At the time, I was a second-year [...]
- Natalia Mroczkowska
“I want you to believe…to believe in things that you cannot.” Bram Stoker, Dracula The old folk know many tales, woven by the spirits in the dark, then chewed and spewed [...]
- Kinga Jacewicz
I lay half-awake, feeling the warmth of the campfire on my face, when the flap of the tepee rustled, and my father stepped in, a gust of crisp morning air following him [...]
- Nora Hultman
They were unusually many that summer, or maybe, worse at hiding. They seemed to get in everywhere in our old house. We heard them squeak, and I remember the stench when they [...]
- Berenika Goździk
The ride was incredibly long, an eternity spent wedged into a leather seat in the back of a BMW. The gravel road was in such bad shape that we were crawling along [...]
- Sarah Flamminio
Voicemail of Corporal Hannah McNally 8 April 2010 0934 Hannah? It’s your Memaw in Saw-whet. You’re gonna get a Red Cross message probably today or tomorrow, the social worker helped me [...]
- Jan Piszczek
<<<Content warning: Extreme violence against humans>>> The old metal gate screeched as it opened. Keiser passed through and locked it, in case some wayward elk would decide to wind up here [...]
- Baldwin E. Hart
‘Meanes to an ende,’ sayeth the black goat as he dresseth a lamb leg off meat. ‘Isn’t this un—,’ I cut off, hesitate. ‘Unethical?’ ‘We’ve found our selves a philosopher! Maynard, [...]
- Paulina Siemionkowicz
While the Scooby-Doo franchise is widely known for its “men in masks” and classic Gothic aesthetics, the 1998 film Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island subverts these familiar tropes through a distinctly Southern Gothic [...]
- Pola Walukiewicz
The 1986 film Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Frank Oz, is a cult classic for a reason. The movie is based on the 1982 stage show adapted from the 1960 horror [...]