Gabriel Smith is from London. His fiction has appeared in The Drift, New York Tyrant Magazine and The Moth. He was mentored by the late Giancarlo DiTrapano of Tyrant Books.
‘There was a red patch, and what looked like a slightly raised piece of dead skin in the centre of my chest. Just to the right of where I assumed my heart was.’
An extract from Gabriel Smith’s novel Brat.
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