A Tale of Lost Souls by Bartłomiej ŚnierzyńskiThe Weight of Silence
We carry our histories in the lines of our faces, though we rarely speak of them. There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from being seen, and another, deeper kind that comes from being hidden in plain sight. We move through rooms,…
Exquisite Shrimp Dynamite by Ali El AwjiThe Weight of Hunger
The plate arrives. A small altar of heat and salt. We sit, waiting for the first bite to break the surface of our patience. There is a hunger that lives in the belly, and another that lives in the eyes. The second is deeper. It is the desire…
Breakfast in the Dark by Jasna VerčkoThe Ritual of Sustenance
Epictetus once remarked that we should not be like the man who, when he has eaten, forgets the hunger he felt an hour before. We live in an age of frantic consumption, where the act of nourishing the body is often reduced to a mere mechanical…