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Down in Front
Colson Whitehead
‘This is the part where we find our seats. Step on toes, suck in gut, make yourself flat as a movie screen.’
Epistle to the New Age
Gore Vidal
‘I’m Bishop of Macedonia, as you will know in time if you are not lucky enough to be in time already.’
Escapes
Joy Williams
‘We went directly out of the theatre and into the streets, my mother weeping on the little usher's arm.’
Exotics
Callan Wink
‘He’d come to tell her that he was leaving. It seemed rather impossible now – the telling, not the leaving.’
Final Dispatch: End in Pizza
Juan Pablo Villalobos
‘Those are not prisons, they are condominiums for rich people. Or at least that is what rich people think.’
Future Shock
Kate Wheeler
‘Althea's neck strained. Her black, small eyes shifted swiftly, blinked, then fixed evilly on Ingrid.’
Gifted
Richard Williams
‘The interim report filed by the investigator from the coroner's bureau listed him as a black male, 5ft 7in tall, weighing 1351b‘.
Given
Jesmyn Ward
‘Given played football with single-minded purpose his senior year, the fall before he died.’