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From The Diaries of Lenny Abramov
Gary Shteyngart
‘Today, I’ve made a major decision: I am never going to die.’
Goal 666
Stacey Richter
‘I began to feel almost ill with a kind of unpleasant pleasure, like being tickled.’
Granma’s Porch
Alexia Tolas
Alexia Tolas’ Granma’s Porch is the Caribbean regional winner of the 2019 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.
Hands Across the Water
Rachel Seiffert
‘Dark red hair. Wee skirt and trainers, bare arms. All those freckles.’
Heavy Weather
Helen Simpson
‘The baby was now three months old, and she had not had more than half an hour alone since his birth in February.’
Here We Go
David Peace
‘The finance officers read the answers in silence, then returned them to be burned.’
Hilditch & Key
Carl Shuker
A Syrian refugee visits London’s oldest houses of fashion. ‘The contemplation of the perfection of a craft, worn by a man who knew its worth, and his own.’
