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Bitter Tennis
Lucy Ives
‘I don’t know much about the cosmos, but I know enough to avoid the game of tennis.’
Fugato
Rafael Frumkin
New fiction from Rafael Frumkin, featuring psychiatrists brandishing DSM–5, delusions, transference and the menacing voice of Alex Trebek.
Glimpses of a totally different system
William Ghosh
‘This old circuit, which had been partly dormant, connected to an earlier memory. It was warm and fizzy and sharp. Then he stepped away, and the current was broken.’
Loudermilk
Lucy Ives
‘The bro has a pair of plump dogs over which he deploys nauseating quantities of ketchup.’
Madam’s Sister
Mbozi Haimbe
‘The sister has a headful of fine hair down to the small of her back. The golden colour of maize silk, her weave is not stiff and waxy like Chipo’s, but moves in the breeze.’
Mail-Order Marriage
for Shy Brides
Molly Gutman
‘The husband, when we are introduced, will already be the husband.’
My Biggest Insecurity About the Garden
Caoilinn Hughes
‘Pathos is suffering. But is it suffering to realize a dream, however puny?’ New fiction by Caoilinn Hughes.
Screaming
Harley Hern
Harley Hern’s ‘Screaming’ is the Pacific regional winner of the 2019 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.
Ten Thousand Feet
Ariana Harwicz
‘I go up and watch the avenue through the window. Noise and more noise. An avenue of insects, stray bullets and snipers sprawled on the rooftops.’