Short Stories

Saturday, June 6th, 2020 by Uwe Heitkamp Consider the following facts. Due to climate change, it has been raining less and less in the south of Portugal for a number …

Wednesday, May 27th, 2020 by Uwe Heitkamp Drring. Drring. Drring. Click! This is Costa speaking. How can I help you? Good morning, Mr Costa. This is the press. We’re in …

Saturday, May 23rd, 2020 by Uwe Heitkamp At a time when the most densely populated cities are slowly returning to public life as normal, here in the countryside we are …

Wednesday, 20th May 2020 by Leila Dregger Imagine – yes, I know this calls for a lot of fantasy as it’s highly unlikely to ever happen – but, despite everything, …

Saturday, May 16th, 2020 Today I received a letter from a reader in Tavira. It included the following sentence: Get off Facebook and go into the garden. Thank you! That’s …

Wednesday, May 13th, 2020 by Siddharth Sareen Ruptures intensify contestation and collective efforts advance solidarity. The COVID-19 pandemic and our societal responses matter in ways whose full consequences are currently …

Saturday, May 9th, 2020 A reflection by Dina Adão It’s nine in the morning. Sitting in front of the computer, impeccably made up and dressed as if she were going …

Wednesday, May 6th, 2020 by Leila Dregger I am now suffering doubly from the crisis: I am in bed with neuritis; I have a fever and I can hardly do …

Sunday, May 3rd, 2020 by Alfredo Cunhal Sendim The Commons are also an economic alternative that produces relationships of mutual reciprocity (giving), generosity and solidarity inside (local or global) communities, …