Category
Longing
Wanting what is absent.
7 stories
Dor
The Village in Winter
There is a sound the gate makes.
3 min read
Fernweh
The Man Who Never Went
Gerald has never left England and has an opinion about the coast road out of Bergen.
3 min read
Sehnsucht
The Good Life
The problem with Martin's life was that there was nothing wrong with it.
4 min read
Hiraeth
The House That Isn't There
The village had a website now. Priya found it at two in the morning, the way you find things at two in the morning, and there was a photograph of the lane taken from roughly where the bus used to stop.
4 min read
Viraha
Four and a Half Hours
The time difference was four and a half hours, which is a stupid number, which is a number designed by a committee that hated lovers.
4 min read
Saudade
The Blue Coat
The flat sold in nine days, which everyone said was very good, and which felt to Elena like being told her house had burned down efficiently.
4 min read
Iktsuarpok
Arrivals
The board said LANDED at 21:14 and Meera had been standing at the barrier since 20:40, which she was aware was insane, and which she had decided to be at peace with.
3 min read