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Markus Villig was 19 in 2013, fresh out of high school in Tallinn, and frustrated with how hard it was to get a reliable taxi in his own city. He borrowed €5,000 from
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Milda Mitkutė was changing apartments in Vilnius in 2008 and had more clothes than the new place could hold. Rather than throw them out, she wanted a way to pass them on to
An hour disappears into the phone and the honest inventory afterwards runs to three items: a man cutting marble, somebody’s strong opinion about interest rates, a dog on a skateboard. None of it
Nobody opens a packet of crisps at 11pm after carefully weighing the options. It happens somewhere between the third bad email and the tenth refresh of a feed that never has anything good
A pair of speakers, two years old, is up for sale online. When no music is playing, they give off an annoying static noise, and the listing does not say so. A buyer’s
Every restaurant service contains a half-second that gives the whole game away. A plate lands. The customer looks up at whoever carried it and says thanks, or looks straight through them and carries
The last time I was properly lost, I was standing at a petrol station somewhere north of Chiang Rai with a dead phone, a warm bottle of water and a dog who clearly
I used to think of a certain kind of person as a weather system. You know the type. You ask how the traffic was and somehow you have insulted their driving, their neighbourhood