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October, 1948
Kazuo Ishiguro
‘I remember looking around me with approval that first night, and today, for all the changes which have transformed the world around it, Mrs Kawakamu's remains as pleasing as ever.’
How Am I Supposed to Talk to You | New Voices
Lauren Holmes
‘Okay don’t sell yourself,’ said my mom, ‘sell the American dream.’
Dreamed in Stone
Jon Fosse
‘You were a chasm that cracked and turned into stones, and then the stones lay there, beautifully laid, in a wall.’
Pink
Tomoyuki Hoshino
‘Spinning makes all that is illusory fall away.’ Translated from the Japanese by Brian Bergstrom.
The Ultimate Safari
Nadine Gordimer
‘We were in the war, too, but we were children, we were like our grandmother and grandfather, we didn’t have guns.’
Fox Deceived | New Voices
Hannah Gersen
‘Sandra was stuck at the traffic lights where route forty hit the turnpike. She was thinking about strawberries.’
Original Message
Austin Grossman
‘So tomorrow we might be on the same side. Unless you’re a triple agent, in which case we already were on the same side.’
Pefkos
David Harsent
‘When he began to walk again, he was picturing himself sitting beside her in their usual bar, drinking a cold beer and smoking a cigarette.’
A Letter From Wales
Cynan Jones
‘Believe me – it will be impossible for you not to wonder – when I vow I am entirely sane.’
