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Don’t Look at Me Like That
Diana Athill
‘When I was at school I used to think that everyone disliked me, and it wasn’t far from true.’
Visitors Rev. 4
Anne Carson
‘I descend to confront – a visitor! After the jam? I think so. Or the gin.’
Scissors
Karina Sainz Borgo
‘They reached Cúcuta at midday. All of them except the grandmother were hungry.’
Black Car
Will Boast
‘It got into you. How many scrapes had he seen? How many wrecks?’ New fiction from Will Boast.
Longshore Drift
Julia Armfield
‘She has never been very keen on the thought of herself as other people see her.’
Field Notes on a Marriage
Te-Ping Chen
‘I tell myself it doesn’t do to fixate too much on the dead: apart from everything else, they can’t answer you.’
Good Progress
Jem Calder
‘I released the picture of my mother’s breast, which resized itself to auto-fit my smartphone’s display.’
Insurrecto
Gina Apostol
‘She does not go home for her mother's funeral because the prospect of return gives her insomnia. She splurges on a coat from Miu Miu instead.’
The Wind That Lays Waste
Selva Almada
‘Leni’s last image of her mother is from the rear window of the car.’