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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 Arrangers of Marriage

By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A Nigerian woman enters into an arranged marriage with a Nigerian man and leaves Nigeria to live with her new husband who is interning to be a medical doctor in New York.

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In Africa Tags: arranged marriage, forced marriage, child marriage, migration, culture, truth, relationships, feminism

The Accident

By Murong Xuecun

A lawyer is drunk behind the wheel and collides with a poor farmer on a motorbike. He is able to shift the blame for the incident onto the farmer by calling on his connections in the police.

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In Australasia Tags: corruption, false consciousness, social class, truth

In a Grove

By Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

A corpse has been found in a grove. The story relates seven different accounts of what allegedly happened. Why do these witness accounts diverge? What is the truth of the matter?

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In Australasia Tags: morality, self-interest, self-deception, perspective, truth, rape

Emma Zunz

By Jorge Luis Borges

Emma Zunz’s father was falsely accused of embezzlement. When she receives news of his death, she decides to exact a chilling revenge on the real culprit.

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In Latin America Tags: revenge, rape, truth, feminism

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