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Clara
Janice Galloway
‘She shifts, half in shadow. Whatever else, she's certainly a child. No one is with her.’
Country & Eastern
Greg Jackson
‘Anyone could find courage when the World-Historical Spirit had selected you to enact your martyrdom on the Six O’Clock News. But in the shadows, in secret, unrecognized?’
Crossbones
Nuruddin Farah
‘In a world in which coercion is the norm, a human trafficker must have underlings as well.’
Dance Cadaverous
Uzodinma Iweala
‘It just seemed like the right thing to want, the right thing to do.’
Day 4
Rachel B. Glaser
‘She sat sweating on the curb as her mother’s narrow face hovered over the parking lot like a hologram.’
Days of Awe
A.M. Homes
Read the title story from AM Homes' dazzling new collection of short stories, Days of Awe, available now from Granta Books.
Don’t Fall in Love
Mohsin Hamid
‘She does not stare at you, but when your eyes meet, she does not look away.’
Dragon Island | New Voices
Laura Fellowes
‘This is a wartime story. It is the spring of 1943 and Europe is burning; look down and see.’
Drawing Lessons
Anushka Jasraj
‘All colours are hurt spectacles, I think, and say aloud without intention.’ The 2017 Commonwealth Short Story Prize winner for Asia.
Dreamed in Stone
Jon Fosse
‘You were a chasm that cracked and turned into stones, and then the stones lay there, beautifully laid, in a wall.’
