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Just Different

By Malika Moustadraf

A trans youth relates her experience growing up in a Muslim environment.

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In N. Africa & Middle East Tags: cruelty, dignity, gender, relationships, feminism, discrimination, religion

The Way to Poppy Street

By Rachida el-Charni

A woman is mugged on the street while onlookers fail to come to her aid.

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In N. Africa & Middle East Tags: cruelty, empathy, dignity

Benny Wins Powerball

By Erin Gough

Benny wins the Powerball and faces pressure from his siblling to share his winnings.

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In Australasia Tags: family, child-rearing, Irony, luck, cruelty

Copy of [Permission Pending]

By Naema Tahir

[Permission pending]

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I Stand Here Ironing

By Tillie Olsen

A poor single mother reminisces about raising her first-born child.

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In North America Tags: child-rearing, poverty, empathy

The Convert

By Lerone Bennett Jr.

Aaron Lott is killed by the sherif when he challenges segregation in Mississippi. His friend Booker is called upon to tell the truth in court about what happened while risking to lose much that is dear to him.

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In North America Tags: race and ethnicity, discrimination, race, religion

The Tale of the Stairs

By Hristo Smirnenski

A idealistic young man gives up parts of himself to the devil in order to help the poor.

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In Europe Tags: poverty, social class

The Doum-tree of Wad Hamid

By Tayeb Salih

A village isolated from the wider world is confronted with modernity and faces an uncertain future.

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In N. Africa & Middle East Tags: religion, culture

The Start of the Affair

By Nuruddin Farah

James, a retired South African Professor, is trying to start a relationship with Ahmed, a young Somalian refugees who is an employee in his restaurant.

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In N. Africa & Middle East Tags: prostitution, exploitation, relationships

Préférence Nationale

By Fatou Diome

A Senegalese woman has troubled finding work in France after a divorce from her French husband.

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In Africa Tags: race and ethnicity, discrimination, respect for autonomy

Mauricio (“the Eye”) Silva

By Roberto Bolaño

While reporting on prostitution in India, a journalist saves two children who have fallen prey to a sect in which young boys are subjected to ritual castration.  

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In Latin America Tags: child-rearing, cruelty, culture, exploitation, race and ethnicity, prostitution

Ysrael

By Junot Diaz

Two brothers set off on a mission to bully a disabled peer.  

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In Latin America, North America Tags: child-rearing, cruelty, discrimination

Miss Forbes’s Summer of Happiness

By Gabriel García Márquez

Two boys plot to kill their excentric and authoritarian nanny during a summer on an Italian island.

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In Latin America Tags: child-rearing, cruelty

"I Only Came to Use the Phone"

By Gabriel García Márquez

Maria’s car stalls and she is picked up by a van of a mental institution. When she arrives at the institution, she is thought to be one of the inpatients and she finds it impossible to find her way out again.

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In Latin America Tags: insanity, respect for autonomy, public health, gender, relationships

Advancing Luna – And Ida B. Wells

By Alice Walker

A black civil rights worker reflects on her white friend’s report that she was raped by a black man in the South.

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In North America Tags: rape, race, race and ethnicity, discrimination, feminism

Was it Heaven? Or Hell?

By Mark Twain

Two matron aunts hide from a mother who is ill with typhoid that her child has died from the disease.

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In North America Tags: truth, self-deception, health, child-rearing, religion

The Lottery Ticket

By Graham Greene

An English vacationer travels to an Island State off the coast of Mexico where he wins the lottery and decides to donate the money.

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In Europe Tags: irony, war

This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen

By Tadeusz Borowski

A Polish prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp unloads unsuspecting Jews from train cars entering the camp before they are lead to the Gas Chambers.

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In Europe Tags: war, holocaust, cruelty, race and ethnicity

To Kill a Child

By Stig Dagerman

A speeding driver on his way to the beach with his partner runs over a child hastily crossing the road on an errand.

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In Europe Tags: empathy, child-rearing

The Black Monk

By Anton Chekhov

A Russian intellectual struggles with mental health issues on an estate in the Russian countryside.

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In Europe Tags: Manic-Depression, meaning of life, public health, respect for autonomy
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