Three Short Prose Pieces by Jaan Oks
This belongs only to humans—to the only earthly god—the human alone, set apart and blessed for those who, within their sexes, are male and female. All else is blasphemy against nature—those proud to their very hair, those exceedingly beautiful and lustful devils, that swollen, desireless, castrated god—who feel shame for the deficiencies in the structure…
Two Short Stories by Vaino Vahing
Ilona was gone for a long time. I even thought about throwing a tantrum and leaving, abandoning her coat and a rouble. But I decided to wait and see what would happen. She returned laughing loudly. She must have had something funny to tell me.
Susurrus and Other Poems by Triin Paja
youth whispers: your power leaves you as I leave you – as if now we must always stand below the night’s piano shawl. a woman says: rose, grow into a rowan or a raven – meaning the body holds firmly to its secret.
The Universe is My Tinder and Other Poems by Sveta Grigorjeva
frankenstein’s monster is back and now polyamorous aromantic eco-sexual more interested in periwinkles than in the third pension pillar nuclear family or content creation they proclaim you can be a freak too you can be a monster too
Meelis Friedenthal’s Around a Point
Verdi hopes to reach Estonia, a place with familial roots, but even this small country is a periphery, an intermediate area, the ancient historical-mythological Hyperborea, a border country. And borders are largely arbitrary, drawn throughout history by maniacs with too much power. So where exactly is home? Perhaps not a place at all, but an…
Echoes of the North: Rein Sepp and Estonia’s Quest for Mythic Nordicness by Mart Kuldkepp
Two main factors contributed to the special significance of Rein Sepp’s Edda translation. The first and foremost among these was the atmosphere of hopelessness in the Soviet 1970s and 1980s, when its economy, reliant on oil exports, struggled under the strain of the arms race with the United States. The consequences of stagnation were felt…
