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Mother Care
Jayne Anne Phillips
‘After the birth and the overnight in the hospital she didn’t go downstairs for a week.’
Doctors and Nurses
Blake Morrison
‘Skirtless, jumperless, she lies on the floor, her hair settling about her like a silky parachute.’
Salford, 1924
Leila Berg
‘Yesterday two boys got hold of me in the playground and banged my head against the wall over and over and said “Why did you kill Jesus?”’
Sluts
Susan Swan
‘It was Tom’s contention that you could spot a slut by the colour of her complexion.’
Eternal Love
Karen E. Bender
‘After Lena and Bob were married in the Chapel of Eternal Love, Ella told them that new husbands and wives were not allowed to share a hotel bedroom.’
Integration
Sherman Alexie
‘Anonymous cries up and down the hallways. Linoleum floors swabbed with gray water. Mop smelling like old sex.’
Looking for the General
Madison Smartt Bell
‘Midday, and the sun thrummed from the height of its arc so that the lizard seemed to cast no shadow.’
Orno and Marshall
Ethan Canin
‘Marshall was unlike anyone Orno had ever met before. He was able to converse with Mr and Mrs Pboson as though he was of their own generation.’
The Revenant
Edwidge Danticat
‘Doctor Berto came with a new stethoscope to check Victoria’s heart. He was shocked to learn that she had died.’
Burning Mary
Tom Drury
‘Paul Emmons was a college student with no money behind him and none in front and so he seemed immune from trouble.’
