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Chekhov’s Ladies
Edna O’Brien
‘Malachi is brushing her hair, long, dark brown and with russet glints. She likes it, as he can tell from her smile in the mirror.’
Naugahyde
Gordon Lish
A story of ageing infidelity: ‘He would seek to remember and she would seek to remember – each succeeding a little differently from the other.’
Three Friends in a Hammock
April Ayers Lawson
‘I could not decide if love was real as a thing or something that could never entirely be proven, like God’
The Cleanse
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
‘There is foam on the sea of our blood. It is the foam of history. We are the survivors, we say.’
The Neighborhood
Kelly Magee
‘Can bad mothers be taught to be good? Or maybe, can we be incentivized to bond? To love?’
The Transition
Luke Kennard
In the not-so-distant future, middle-class underachievers are faced with a difficult choice: prison or motivational business classes.
Swimming Underwater
Merethe Lindstrøm
‘When I picture my childhood, it’s like I’m swimming underwater.’ Merethe Lindstrøm’s story is translated from the Norwegian by Marta Eidsvåg, and is the winner of Harvill Secker’s Young Translators’ Prize 2016.
The Weak Spot
Sophie Mackintosh
‘There was a certain kind of teenage girl who would relish not just the killing, but the trophy taking, choosing a tooth and using the pliers herself.’
The Tenant
Victor Lodato
‘She’d gotten so used to her loneliness, she didn’t want to fall from it now.’