MIHYAR OF DAMASCUS
“Oh broken homeland, glued together,
walking beside me with your faltering steps.” SUSHMA JOSHI Browsing the Internet for online literary journals, I got tired of coming up against prestigious “international” literary journals based in the suburban mid-west of America. The more international they claimed to be, the more they seemed to print stories about lawns and Graham crackers and squirrels on trees. I had a feeling that a nationality check would show all the writers came not just from one country, but probably within the same 100mile county lines. Its not as if Americans don’t travel, or write about other places. They do, but for some reason these cosmopolitan writers always seem to end up getting published in publications who don’t self-style themselves “international.” Hmm, I thought. Maybe the term “international” has another meaning when it emanates from these mastheads. A little disgruntled, a little restless, I looked again, and imagine my delight when...