Colin Grant

‘No matter how I attempted to interpret the email, it could only be read in one way: I was out of the Bunny Wailer club. Jah Bunny had put a curse on me.’

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Matilda Gustavsson

Issue 137

Lauren Hough

‘Our pasts are so unbelievable we need a witness for our own memory.’

Issue 137

Ken Follett

‘Every sect needs jargon. We did not have churches, we had halls; services were called meetings; the congregation was the assembly; elders were overseers’

Sarah Gerard

‘In Amway, there’s no such thing as contentment.’

Melissa Febos

‘In a country whose government we do not trust, who do we need more than writers and teachers? And what is more powerful than an inspired youth?’

Leslie Jamison

‘I feel afraid, and I do not know what to make of yesterday’s belief. I can see that belief like an object shimmering underwater, a kind of relic.’

Eli Goldstone

‘I could do nothing but lie there, locked inside my body.’

Melissa Febos

‘They knelt at my feet. They crawled naked across gleaming wooden floors.’

Janice Galloway

‘I admit the sneaking feeling, just now and then, that those who govern us think we’re the problem.’

Xiaolu Guo

‘I had lost my native country, now I was going to lose a continent.’

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Claire Hajaj

‘The morning Helin walked out to die, she dressed carelessly in a loose T-shirt and jeans.’

Sinéad Gleeson

‘One day, something changes; a corporeal blip. For me, it happened in the months after turning thirteen: the synovial fluid in my left hip began to evaporate like rain.’

Minal Hajratwala

‘We may not belong to Shakespeare, nor he to us, ever.’