Issue 127

Daisuke Yokota

‘The photograph we are left with and the memory of that time do not progress along the same time axes.’

Issue 37

William Wharton

‘I thought after what had happened to us in the past twenty-four hours I’d never be scared to die again, but I am.’

Issue 81

Alan Warner

‘We were a helpless community put in motion together.’

Joanna Walsh

‘I was still quite a small girl when I decided to kidnap Enzo Ponza.’

Issue 7

A. N. Wilson

‘His father had visited a prostitute and had been a spy. It was quite obvious to Julian that this was true. He was almost pleased to read it, for it justified his sense, never admitted to himself before, that Daddy Spoilt Everything.’

Issue 53

David Xiao

‘I told June that the woman they uncovered was not our daughter.’

Issue 103

Lois Williams

‘A world of soft things stacked deeply.’

Alf Kjetil Walgermo

‘Could we somehow have avoided feeding the killer at our own breast?’

Issue 124

Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch

‘On tenterhooks / you think how string constricts, how / it connects, how you followed it back / to Rawtenstall.’

Issue 24

Tobias Wolff

‘We’d left Sarasota in the dead of summer, right after my tenth birthday, and headed west under low flickering skies that turned black and exploded and cleared just long enough to leave the air gauzy with steam.’

Issue 65

Jenny Uglow

Josh Weil

‘Some mornings I see him coming up through the mist. The grey shape of a long-haired man carrying a long-barreled gun amid the bare grey branches of the old apple trees.’

Issue 127

Yumiko Utsu

‘How long has it been since Noah and his passengers set off in their vessel?’

Jeanette Winterson

‘You were a coat of many colours wrestled into the dirt.’