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Issue IV
Dear Readers,
In a world that asks so much of us just to stay alive, we’re grateful to offer you Issue IV of Juste Literary. This collection gathers voices from around the globe—each piece a fragment of tenderness, defiance, and wonder. We hope these works reach a gentler part of you, as they did us.
With deep thanks to our contributors, we invite you to step in. A new kind of beauty awaits.
With love,
Anas & Abdullah
Issue IV, November 2025
blue crows froze like black bells on the snowy spring path. this moment will be eternal. at least it can […]
He rushes down the wooden staircase. Each step rattles under the boy’s sharp, lightweight—made heavier just a touch by a […]
Your mother had picked me to be your motherThe one to raise youAs my birth mother picked my motherAs my […]
as an adult child — I’m still your kidyou were tasked with cultivatingmy first years of lifeI am not your […]