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Zaina Arafat
‘I grew obsessed with the place, thinking that getting to see it, to experience it, would make the pain of that fall go away.’
The Diplomat’s Daughter
Chanelle Benz
‘Natalia used to be a wife. His name was Erik. His name was Viggo. His name was Christien. His name was Lucas. His name was Nils.’
The Second Night is Ending
Mikail Eldin
‘This winter and this forest will leave you with a shiver in your heart, which will appear whenever you see a winter forest, even in pictures.’
This Is Not A Test
Stuart Evers
‘In the end, because he loved her still, still so very much, he let her win.’
Ninth and Race
Dan Burt
‘Prostitution, gambling, fencing, contract murder, loan-sharking, political corruption and crime of every sort were the daily trade in Philadelphia’s Tenderloin, the oldest part of town.’
This July
Wiam El-Tamami
‘It felt as though time would fall off a cliff on Sunday. We jokingly called it The End of the World.’
Opening Invocation
Jean-Paul de Dadelsen
‘Or otherwise, leaving the shore of the intermediate sea, / has it been a while since they’ve gone ahead / into the interior of lands of the spirit?’
World War II Has Never Ended
Michael W. Clune
‘I discovered Hitler the summer I turned twelve. I found him in the centre of a map in a computer game called Beyond Castle Wolfenstein. I destroyed him with a bomb.’
You Remember the Planes
Paul Auster
‘You can’t remember the precise moment when you understood that you were a Jew.’
Héctor Abad | First Sentence
Héctor Abad
‘Ever since this happened to me, I haven’t really believed in free will.’
