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Continue reading →: The Two SingersThey say that in two neighboring villages, on either side of the border between Hegyköz and Rétalja, there once lived two singers more famous than any others in the whole region, and more furious with each other than any two men had ever been. One was called Benedek, a son…
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Continue reading →: The Second ShadowI first noticed it under the stairwell window, one March afternoon, walking home from the library, where I’ve worked as a lending desk clerk for ten years. The sun hung low, and my shadow stretched long ahead of me across the pavement, the way it always did, when I suddenly…
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Continue reading →: The Dance That Brought RainThere lived, not so very long ago, a people who called themselves after their own valley: Aranypatak, Golden Stream, named for a brook that once ran so clear and so bright that the morning sun turned the water running among its stones to gold. This is the story of the…
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Continue reading →: Customer ServiceThe hail started the exact moment Lívia said “I do.” Not before, not after, but in that half-second while the word was still leaving her mouth, as though the sky itself had been waiting for precisely that instant to dump every grudge it had been hoarding onto us, over the…
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Continue reading →: The Millers Boy Who Tricked WinterThey say that long ago, back when Winter had never learned the meaning of a limit, there lived in the village of Malomszeg a miller’s apprentice named Balázs. He was not especially strong, nor especially handsome, but there was something in him the villagers simply called the spindle. Because just…
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Continue reading →: The Fitting RoomI must have walked through the narrow passage between Kárász Street and Dömötör Street a thousand times. I always slipped a little on the same cracked paving stone when it rained, always glanced into the same dusty window of the shuttered shoe-repair shop, half hoping someone would finally haul away…
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Continue reading →: The Pact Of RavensThey say that in Stonecleft there lives a family whose house never knows silence, because ravens always perch along the roof ridge and in the old oak in the yard, and this is no curse but a blessing, though the village sometimes finds the two hard to tell apart. This…
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Continue reading →: Out of StepThe juice in Eszter’s glass is still trembling on its surface, sitting at exactly the height it was when she set it down, and I’ve been watching for what feels like forty minutes now how nothing spills out of it while she tells me what happened at work today. There…
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Continue reading →: The Waiting RoomThe waiting room for the pediatric orthopedics outpatient clinic at Heim Pál Children’s Hospital was on the second floor, at the end of a long, windowless corridor whose walls had been painted sometime in the nineties with a jungle theme, and where one giraffe’s neck had worn down so badly…
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Continue reading →: The Bridge of ConfessionsThey say that in Rushbrook there stands a bridge no one calls by its proper name, because it has none — only the one the village gave it: the Bridge of Confessions. It is narrow, old, slick-planked in wet weather, and many claim parts of it are rotten through, because…
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