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Issue 145

The Canvas Bag

Inigo Thomas

‘It was given to her by her Japanese captors after the Fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942 to pack the few possessions she was allowed to take with her to prison.’

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Letter of Apology

Maria Reva

‘One can only argue with an intellectual like Konstantyn Illych if one speaks to him on his level.’

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Radical Sufficiency

Jess Row

‘We have to reverse-engineer our genius so that we can appreciate the simple things.’

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Bob

Jana Prikryl

‘he cut out small talk / not hearing it, convincingly deaf to its nothing’

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Comic Timing

Holly Pester

‘I went to Ilford alone / was handed a white laminated square’

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Common Whipping

Naben Ruthnum

A young film composer turns to prostitution in a short story by Naben Ruthnum, set in a Rome of the early 1970s.

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Three Poems

Sophie Robinson

‘you can call my price by any name and she will come just the same’

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Amy Sackville | The Proust Questionnaire

Amy Sackville

‘What is your guiltiest pleasure? Is it really a pleasure if you feel bad about it?’

The Online Edition

The Minutes

Nell Stevens

‘The Minutes’ by Nell Stevens is shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award 2018.

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The Closet

Kim Sagwa

‘It’s the hour of afterglow, the day’s demise, the sky bleeding to death.’

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Three poems

Mary Ruefle

‘One of the loveliest possibilities / is that the truth is made of glass’

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The Poker

Kathryn Scanlan

‘I looked back and there was something wrong about his hand – how it cupped her bottom, how it probed.’

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Notes on Craft

Paul Dalla Rosa

‘I feel like I’m haunting an empty building, inert, waiting for each room to burst into flames.’

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Slum Wolf

Tadao Tsuge

‘It was a red-light district and a plywood market and a town of hoodlums in one. I’ll add one more thing: The whole place stunk of sewage.’

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