Author
Barys Paulau
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Barys Paulau is a Belarusian writer and cultural studies scholar. He holds an MA in Cultural Studies from Lithuania and is a member of the Memory Studies Association (Netherlands). His academic essays explore literature, theater, and cinema.
A UNIVERSE FOR TWO
ELENA (40s) — A translator and writer. She has spent years living in the margins of someone…TOMASZ (50s) — A poet who once had a career. He now has a reputation. He drinks to keep the…THE WAITRESS (30s) — She is always there. She never explains herself. She moves through the…
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The question came at the end, when the lights were already too hot and the microphone had begun to feel like an instrument of confession rather than a broadcast.
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She sat at the corner table in a bar called The Last Honest Place, which was neither honest nor last. It was the kind of establishment where the lighting forgave everything and…
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