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David Means

David Means is the author of five story collections including Instructions for a Funeral, and the novel Hystopia, which was longlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize. Photograph © Beowulf Sheehan

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Fiction | Issue 148
Fiction | Issue 148

Vows

David Means

‘True love is, when seen from afar, a big fat cliché.’

Fiction | Issue 152 padlock
Fiction | Issue 152 padlock

Clementine, Carmelita, Dog

David Means

‘Here I should stress that dog memory is not at all like human memory, and that human memory, from a dog’s point of view, would seem strange, clunky, unnatural and deceptive.’

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