TE15 Lithuanian Honey Cake

Acknowledgments The short story “The Grand Piano Room” by Jaroslavas Melnikas is from the book, The Last Day , published by Noir Press (2018), excerpted with permission. Poems by Aušra Kaziliūnaitė are used with permission. The poems “the blooming bush”, “plants”, “spring dissection”, “the evening news”, “with trembling voice”, “a fable about a castle, a rat (maybe dead), petroleum and Stalin”, and “zero’s eclipse” appear in the book The Moon is a Pill (Parthian Books, 2018). Author photo by Thomas Langdon. The story “By RemoteMeans” by Danutė Kalinauskaitė appears by permission of the author and translator. Author photo is by Monika Požerskytė. Poems by Tautvyda Marcinkevičiūtė are selected from the book Terribly in Love , courtesy of the publisher, Lost Horse Press. Author photo: Vladas Braziūnas . The chapter from Irena: Life ShouldBe Clear is provided courtesy of the translator, Karla Gruodis. Author photo of Irena Veisaitė and Aurimas Svedas is by Algimantas Aleksandravičius. The poems of Gytis Norvalis are provided courtesy of the translator, Rimas Uzgiris. Author photo: Dainiaus Dirgelos.

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