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Driver
Taiye Selasi
‘I am the full-time driver here. I am not going to kill my employers. I have read that drivers do that now.’
Zoraida
Tanya Rey
‘Desire was a slapping, bone-chilling wind the likes of which did not exist this close to the equator.’
Xmas, Jamaica Plain
Melanie Rae Thon
‘I’m the one who got away, the one you don’t know; I’m the long hairs you find under your pillow, nested in your drain, tangled in your brush.’
Antics
Clive Sinclair
'My nubile companion, assuredly no intellectual, continued to masturbate in front of me.'
Suddenly
Victoria Redel
‘A month after turning forty-five, every last egg in her body is a Rockette doing the can-can.’
Centre of Gravity
Victoria Tokareva
‘For reasons I don’t want to go into, I decided to commit suicide.’
The Man in The Van
Lucretia Stewart
‘On Friday 20 March 1998 at ten-thirty in the morning I was lying in the bath, washing my hair’.
The Surgery of Last Resort
Daniel Smith
’Early one morning in the fall of 1999, Steven R., a forty-seven-year-old man with fair skin and grey hair, was in the front yard of his home in suburban Nebraska, picking up leaves‘.
Vipers
Kamila Shamsie
‘Cover your nose and mouth, the order came, swift and useless; if they’d had their turbans they would have wound them around their faces but there were only the balaclavas.’
