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Birthday Boy
Tony Earley
‘During the night something like a miracle happened: Jim's age grew an extra digit.’
Black Car
Will Boast
‘It got into you. How many scrapes had he seen? How many wrecks?’ New fiction from Will Boast.
Blasphemy
Fatima Bhutto
The tourists are gone. They’ve fled to Islamabad, along with the landlords and the hoteliers and the battalions of police that used to defend them, and certainty has left with them.
Blow Your House Down
Pat Barker
‘There was a moment of complete silence, one of those inexplicable, simultaneous pauses in conversation that come over groups of people in a crowded room.’
Burning Mary
Tom Drury
‘Paul Emmons was a college student with no money behind him and none in front and so he seemed immune from trouble.’
But Richard Widmark
Nik Cohn
‘I ask my wife what she means by kidnap exactly, but she says never mind’.
Call If You Need Me
Raymond Carver
‘I think I even used the phrase second honeymoon to the realtor, God forgive me, while Susan smoked a cigarette and read tourist brochures out in the car’.
City Boy
Judy Chicurel
‘I would have dreams that woke me in the middle of the night, my heart shaking inside my body.’
Click
Brian Evenson
‘It wasn’t that he didn’t have a name, only that he was having difficulty locating it.’