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War in Donbas
Julian Evans
Six days on the front lines of Ukraine’s ongoing battle with pro-Russian separatists
After Maidan
Oliver Bullough
‘A woman asked the steward behind the registration desk if our flight to Moscow was domestic or international. “We are still working on that,” the man answered.’
This is New
Marc Bojanowski
‘None of this would have happened if I’d just taken a deep breath, suppressed my emotions and said to the young woman, “Leave. Now.”‘
Bandit
Molly Brodak
‘There are fragments of a criminal alongside fragments of a dad, and nothing overlaps, nothing eclipses the other, they’re just there, next to each other. No narrative fits.’
The Emotional Life of Plants
Rae Armantrout
An exciton consists / of the escaped negative / (electron) / and the positive hole / it left behind.
A Numbered Graph That Shows How Each Part of the Body Would Fit Into A Chair
Mary Jo Bang
‘It’s a simple truth that one can occupy two / places at one time while sitting in a chair—the same way a / poseable doll can be divided from her dress.’
Light
Lesley Nneka Arimah
‘When Enebeli Okwara sent his girl out in the world, he did not know what the world did to daughters.’ 2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize – regional winner for Africa.
The Gentlest Village
Jesse Ball
‘You are learning – learning a great deal. It is too much for you, so your body bows out. Then you wake up and you can continue.’
The Florida Motel
Kevin Canty
‘Suddenly she understood what she was doing here. She was among strangers, the place where Bill had chosen to spend his life.’