The latest issue of Tint Journal, the magazine for English as a Second Language (ESL) writers, just launched today! Find all 24 texts online and for free at tintjournal.com. We hope you enjoy reading this new issue and find something that resonates with you! Artwork: Vanesa Erjavec

"It’s said half of healing happens in your head — placebo effects and all that — but in my case there’s little room for doubt; facts are facts and linoleum is linoleum." tintjournal.com/short-story/...

My favourite line in The Coen Brothers' "Hail, Caesar!" by Josh Brolin's character - movie production executive Eddie Mannix - in the confession box to a priest: "I struck a movie star in anger." He gets away with five Hail Marys.

Thank you @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social for giving this the perfect home!

TINT NONFICTION // Bianca-Olivia Nita is a Romanian-born nonfiction writer and documentary critic based in The Netherlands. She is currently working on an essay collection. Read her essay "Fish, Water, Lemons, Sea" at tintjournal.com/essay/fish-w... Art: "Before the Deep Sleep" by Mirja Paljakka

"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere." Carl Sagan

"Being able to play Frère Jacques on the recorder might earn you some popularity as your family’s circus monkey at weddings and christenings, but not help you get into a good university later on." tintjournal.com/essay/silence

"...an artist doesn't really need a great deal of experience. One heartbreak can produce many novels. But you have to have a heart that can break." Brian Morton, 'Starting Out in the Evening', upon which the 2007 film with the same name is based, starring Frank Langella.

"Something wraps your ankle in a tight grip. A sharp end presses into your lower back and threatens to pierce your skin. A claw? A sting? A beak?"‪ Our Spring 2025 issue recently launched with a short story by @johansmits.bsky.social.

"Defamiliarization: an artistic or literary technique that presents the common in unfamiliar ways; that which has been taken for granted is reenvisioned, made strange, to heighten a reader’s perception of the familiar." From The Gravity of the Thing. thegravityofthething.com/the-fearsuck...

The woodcuts illustrating Alex Garland's The Coma, perfectly capture the novella's unsettling, dreamlike mood. Rereading this little pearl of a book, it strikes me as the perfect complement to Ishiguro's 500+ pages novel The Unconsoled. Two masters at work...

Tommy... Oh, Tommy, Tommy, Tommy...! #SpeculativeFiction frictionlit.org/tommy/

Who needs hallucinogenics when you have Ishiguro's The Unconsoled? Still my all-time favourite... www.backlisted.fm/episodes/237

Because these are hard times... bebarbar.com/2024/02/27/h...

I particularly enjoyed this one: freeflashfiction.com/fiction/regi... #FlashFiction

Warning - shameless self promotion! My latest flash fiction, "The Question": freeflashfiction.com/fiction/the-... #FlashFiction

A Butterfly in a Jam Jar open.substack.com/pub/prattlef... Excellent piece on what is(n't) flash fiction! #FlashFiction