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Sluts

Susan Swan

‘It was Tom’s contention that you could spot a slut by the colour of her complexion.’

Snakebite

Saba Sams

A new short story by Saba Sams.

Snuffing Out the Moon

Osama Siddique

What does it take to find a good lawyer in Lahore?

Solly and Lark

Jayne Anne Phillips

‘If he got inside me I would never get away.’

Solo

Ingrid Persaud

‘I wanted her to see me as a real man, with a little swagger, cool as this fall evening.’

An excerpt from Ingrid Persaud’s Love After Love.

St Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves

Karen Russell

‘Sister Josephine tasted like sweat and freckles. She smelled easy to kill.’

Stalin, Lenin, Robespierre

Brandon Taylor

‘He tried to think about what sort of person he wanted to be in this world and how he might bring that about.’

Fiction by Brandon Taylor.

Stars and Stripes

Santiago Roncagliolo

‘He chewed on the syllables until they sounded the way they did in movies.’

Stupid Girls

Rhian Sasseen

‘It was 1 a.m., and it was Los Angeles; they were used to indiscretion.’

A story by Rhian Sasseen.

Submersion

Ross Raisin

‘It is obvious now that we can have no control over our journey, or its end.’

Suddenly

Victoria Redel

‘A month after turning forty-five, every last egg in her body is a Rockette doing the can-can.’

Summer Tidings

James Purdy

‘He washed the quivering flesh of the wound in thick yellow soap.’

Ten Thousand Steps

Rupert Tebb

Winner of the 2021 Disquiet Prize for Fiction.

Termite’s Birthday, 1959

Jayne Anne Phillips

‘It's like by the time he was born there was too much to know.’