Taxi Driver

“Rasma hated her dreams; they made her sick — she rested best when she fell into complete silence and darkness.”

Rasma is a taxi driver with a mysterious past, a mysterious present, an uncertain future, and a complex relationship with a ‘double’. We follow her through a series of encounters personal and professional – some troubling, some comic, some profound – as she struggles with her sense of identity and belonging while trying to make ends meet.

Author Biography

Jurga Tumasonytė is a prose author and interviewer. Her debut short prose book, ‘Dirbtinė muselė’ (Little Artificial Fly), received the Kazimieras Barėnas Literary Award. ‘Undinės’ (Mermaids), her second collection of short stories, was nominated as one of the best books of the year and won the Jurga Ivanauskaitė Literary Award as well as being listed in the Top 12 most creative books of 2019. She was awarded the Antanas Vaičiulaitis Literary Award for the short story Karalystė Kingdom and her debut novel, ‘Remontas’ (Renovation), was published in 2020. Her second novel, ‘Naujagimiai’ (Newborns), was published in 2023. Sasha Wilde (they/them) is a Lithuanian sound and performance artist, vocalist, writer and a literary translator working and living in London. They have a BA in Tibetan, and an MA in Psychosocial studies. Sasha is currently writing a memoir on being accused of witchcraft and satanism as a teenager. They are also developing new multidisciplinary work that deals with this experience, as well as moral panics more broadly.