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Portia’s Choice
Lorna Gibb
‘There were rules to the game. I could not lose my virginity and I had to be careful not to let a boy go further than I wanted to.’
Epithalamium
Greg Jackson
‘Hara had stumbled on a kind of play, as if they were sisters left alone by their parents for the first time to explore the different ways a day could be deconstructed.‘
The Cage of You
Kerry Howley
‘They treated their bodies like some exotic animal they’d found fast asleep, beings they needed to wake to truly know.’
Sanjay Nagar Blues
Anjum Hasan
‘motorcyclists like to howl / and dogs drop bulging bags of garbage / from their mouths when they see other dogs / they want to mount’
Release the Darkness to New Lichen
Peter Gizzi
‘was it wind or a creature / am I here or is it over’
Dreamed in Stone
Jon Fosse
‘You were a chasm that cracked and turned into stones, and then the stones lay there, beautifully laid, in a wall.’
Anjali Joseph | First Sentence
Anjali Joseph
‘I kept returning to the Beckett stories, a favourite since I came upon them in my late teens.’