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Lion and Panther in London
Tania James
‘Gama has defeated them all, and more, but how is he to be Champion of the World if this half of the world is in hiding?’
Local Man has Sex with Corpse
Allan Gurganus
‘RALEIGH–A former funeral home employee charged with having sex with a body he was transporting pleaded guilty Wednesday after a psychiatrist testified that the man had sexual problems and that the incident probably was an isolated one.’
Look-Alikes
Nadine Gordimer
‘It was scarcely worth noticing at first; an out-of-work lying under one of the rare indigenous shrubs cultivated by the Botany Department on the campus.’
Loudermilk
Lucy Ives
‘The bro has a pair of plump dogs over which he deploys nauseating quantities of ketchup.’
Madam’s Sister
Mbozi Haimbe
‘The sister has a headful of fine hair down to the small of her back. The golden colour of maize silk, her weave is not stiff and waxy like Chipo’s, but moves in the breeze.’
Mail-Order Marriage
for Shy Brides
Molly Gutman
‘The husband, when we are introduced, will already be the husband.’
Mate
Kate Grenville
‘He’d bought the Akubra and the elastic-sided boots but anyone could see he was a city bugger.’
May We Be Forgiven
A.M. Homes
‘Now I understand the meaning of — it just happened. Or — it was an accident.’
Memphis
Ellen Gilchrist
‘He drove off in her car. He was wearing a white visor, a white shirt with long sleeves. I don't believe the world I lived to see.’
Midsummer in April
Maarten ’t Hart
‘A premonition of approaching calamity deepened in the course of March to an unease that drove me almost crazy.’
