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The Bridge Over Shuto Expressway No. 1
Alex Preston
‘Hiro Ōe wakes earlier now that he has the apartment to himself.’
Submersion
Ross Raisin
‘It is obvious now that we can have no control over our journey, or its end.’
We Walked on Water
Eliza Robertson
‘Land of the misty giants: cedar, alder, Ponderosa pine. Cascade Mountains pushing out green like grass through a garlic press.’
How We Got Mother Back
Valério Romão
‘With the passing of time we got used to hearing our brother being our mother.’
Arrivals
Sunjeev Sahota
‘But he couldn’t lose the sense that this was a turning point in his life, that she’d been delivered to him for a reason.’
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.’
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.’
Just Right
Zadie Smith
‘There’s no romance in that child whatsoever. No clue of the magic of storytelling. I’ll bet you a dollar she wears a girdle already.’
Slow Motion
Adam Thirlwell
‘It really wasn’t normal for me to wake up and not know how I got there. A normal pastime for me was to be intent on mathematical problems, or models of voting patterns in different democratic states.’