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Don’t Fall in Love
Mohsin Hamid
‘She does not stare at you, but when your eyes meet, she does not look away.’
Dreams of a Leisure Society
Adam Foulds
‘They were citizens of a multidimensional universe and they liked to get high.’
Lion
Luisa Geisler
‘The better they were at escaping, the quicker, more daring they were, the harder the cat chased them.’
Still Life
Vinicius Jatobá
‘You see the house and its time, the house and the house alone, though your secrets, your fears and silences still exist there, locked away behind the denseness of the closed doors’
Apnoea
Daniel Galera
‘I could make you promise much worse things.’ Daniel Galera muses on unknown family histories.
Even Pretty Eyes Commit Crimes
M.J. Hyland
‘My father was sitting on my doorstep. He was wearing khaki shorts, his bare head was exposed to the full bore of the sun, and he was holding a pineapple.’
The Third Dumpster
Gish Jen
‘It was about doing what sons were bound to do, which was not to pussyfoot around.’
Servitude
Tessa Hadley
‘We had each needed the other for something, which wasn’t kindness or love. We’d both had dry husks for our hearts, that day.’
Radio Story
Anushka Jasraj
‘We have been married five years – too soon for us to take pleasure in each other’s absence.’
Rice Cakes and Starbucks
Esther Freud
‘When the Lindens arrived in Los Angeles it was raining. Not drizzling, or even pouring, but streaming down outside the glass doors of the arrivals lounge in thick, grey sideways slices.’
