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Messages with the Supplicant
Nicolette Polek
‘On Good Friday, the priest in the livestream video stood inside the darkened sanctuary.’
Fiction by Nicolette Polek.
Thick Legs
Natalia Borges Polesso
‘Was soccer a sign? I don’t think so, nearly all the girls had boyfriends, except for Greice and Kelli, and I didn’t have one because I was a puta, as they used to say, I hooked up with everybody.’
The Pine Islands
Marion Poschmann
‘Gilbert Silvester woke up distraught. Mathilda’s black hair lay spread out on the pillow next to him, tentacles of a malevolent pitch-black jellyfish.’
Johnny Kingdom
Chris Power
'Andy doesn't like any of the names for what he does. He rejects 'impersonator', and resists 'tribute act', although he knows it comes closest.' From Chris Power's exceptional collection of short fiction, Mothers
Valdir Peres, Juanito and Poloskei
Antonio Prata
‘The only path to tread, from now on, was downward.’
The Law of White Spaces
Giorgio Pressburger
‘It was beginning to seem as if his brother’s fate depended on him, on his ability, or lack of it, to learn the prayer for the dead.’
The Bridge Over Shuto Expressway No. 1
Alex Preston
‘Hiro Ōe wakes earlier now that he has the apartment to himself.’
A Last Chance in Whitefish
Adam O’Fallon Price
‘The dialogue, of course, is almost entirely invented, though true to the spirit and tone.’
A story by Adam O’Fallon Price.
Schenectady
Adam O’Fallon Price
‘To be fair, it is near a waterfall; although, to be fair again, everything around here is near a waterfall.’
The Miraculous Cairn
Christopher Priest
‘The island of Seevl lies like a dark shadow over my memories of childhood.’
Niagara
Frederic Prokosch
‘Thomas Wolfe's enormous body and low, grumbling voice made the cutlery look like trinkets in a brittle Lilliput.’
