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Amateur Dramatics
Jonathan Lee
‘I heard the news from a nurse with a piece of tinsel tied around her waist: my father had become a hypochondriac.’
Boy, Snow, Bird
Helen Oyeyemi
‘I didn’t enclose a note, though there were a few things I’d have liked to say. Restraint is classier.’
Crow Fair
Thomas McGuane
‘You’re in a different world when your own mother doesn’t recognize you, or thinks you’re the stranger who gave her a hickey.’
Filsan
Nadifa Mohamed
‘Silence takes the place of all these words and her loneliness remains as dense and close as a shadow.’
Success
Adriana Lisboa
‘They hadn’t tried them yet but the girls both knew, from the adverts, that Hollywood cigarettes were awesome.’
The Captain
Rattawut Lapcharoensap
‘I was with Dora. We were in love. Things were cheap and plentiful and the money from the insurance was going to last us forever.’
The Loyalty Protocol
Ben Marcus
‘The tally, indeed, on that particular activity, in that particular location – or, in fact, on any couch ever – was, indeed, zero.’
The Quality of the Affection
Lloyd Lynford
‘What thou lovest well cannot be reft from thee. But maybe Ezra was mistaken, maybe it can be reft, but maybe that was her fault.’
