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The Indian Uprising
Ann Beattie
‘Then winter ended and spring came, and I thought, even if I don’t believe there’s a poem in anything any more, maybe I’ll write a story.’
The Life and Death of a Homosexual
Pierre Clastres
‘There was no sweetness in the air that day: the corpse gave off a terrible stench’.
The Pretty Women of Paris
Anonymous
‘For the last fifteen years she has been richly kept by a Russian prince, who revels in her brutality, viciousness, extravagance and love of brandy.’
The Mast Year
Diane Cook
‘Sounds like a mast year . . . it’s a thing that happens to trees. But sometimes it happens to people too.’
Tales Out of School
Kees Beekmans
‘But it seems I’ve said something stupid again, and blasphemous to boot.’
Morrison Okoli (1955-2010)
Jekwu Anyaegbuna
‘It is always an honour to have women cry during someone’s burial, but yours is too silent for comfort.’
The Meaning of Zombies
Naomi Alderman
‘They’re the interchangeable anonymous people we encounter on our daily commute, those whose humanity we cannot acknowledge.’
Extracts From The Journal Of Flying Officer J
William Boyd
‘The squadron left today for the city. The mess cold and sad, Verschoyle, with uncharacteristic generosity, said I could keep the monoplane.’
Lucky Pierre and the Coldwater Flat
Robert Coover
‘Projections run riot, mirrors tip and weave, there’s a blur of images like film jumping out of its sprockets.’