Stefanis Michailidi

Some stories don’t need twenty pages to stay with you. Over the years, I’ve slowly fallen in love with small forms of writing — flash fiction, tiny stories, fragments that manage to hold an entire emotional world in just a few paragraphs. When I first started writing, I found that incredibly difficult. I wanted to explain everything. I wanted every feeling spelled out, every moment fully visible on the page. Writing less felt almost impossible. Cutting words felt like losing something...

Raised together, but not the same. I have a younger brother, that we grew up in the same house, with the same parents, under the same rules. Yet, when we talk now, it’s obvious we didn’t grow up in the same childhood. We remember things differently. Some moments are identical in our minds, and some jokes still make us laugh in exactly the same way. But other memories split in two the moment we start talking about them. I remember pressure. He remembers freedom. I remember feeling obligated to...

In a world that moves too fast, reading has become a small act of rebellion — a moment of stillness where young people can finally hear themselves think