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At the Edge of Night
Friedo Lampe
An excerpt from Friedo Lampe’s At the Edge of Night, translated from the German by Simon Beattie.
At The Kitchen Table
Peter Orner
‘Your husband dies, you’re a widow. There’s almost joy in it. Why not scream it? Glory.’
At The Villa Cockroft
Dan Rhodes
‘In Bosnia, it seemed, a deal was a deal and the Bosnian was ready to pay his rent.’
At Yankee Stadium
Don DeLillo
‘From a series of linked couples they become one continuous wave, larger all the time.’
Athena Sees Good Things for You
Patrick Ryan
‘Dear X1, the first document began, On X2, as X3 moves into X4, I want you to turn X5 years into golden wealth.’
Author, Author
Martin Amis
‘Cities at night, I feel, contain men who cry in their sleep and then say Nothing.’
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Toby Litt
‘I began to think, for no particular reason, about what the exact series of events would be were I to die at that moment – before, even, my coffee went cold.’
B-ABEL
Jeremy Lane
‘Partial, our protagonist, to the palatal; prone, too, to the plosive; and apt, you’ve heard, to alliterate.’
Bachelor Life
M.J. Fitzgerald
‘At nine o’clock the man leaves the flat dressed in an elegant salmon-pink dress’.
Bakamonotako
Brenda Shaughnessy
‘Bakamonotako felt she didn’t need all eight of her appendages. Four would do.’
