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American Girl and Boy from Shobrakheit
Noor Naga
‘Question: is romance just a father who never carried you to bed carrying you, at last, to bed?’
American Journal
Christine Montalbetti
‘All those appetizing vessels exposed and available, O how delightfully vulnerable they are, it brings a tear to the eye.’
An Amateur Spy In Arabia
Norman Lewis
‘In the 1930s I wanted to travel and I wanted to write. In 1935, I published my first book—about a journey to Spain’.
An As-Yet-Undiscovered Land Mammal
Mariana Leky
An excerpt from Mariana Leky’s What You Can See From Here.
An English Opening
Maxim Osipov
‘In a bad position, any move is worthless.’
New fiction by Maxim Osipov, translated from the Russian by Alex Fleming.
An Evening of Martyrdom
Golnoosh Nour
New fiction from Golnoosh Nour’s debut collection about the lives of young, queer Iranians.
An Olive Grove in Ends
Moses McKenzie
‘The infamous Hughes family – known to police and hospital staff across the city.’
Fiction set in Bristol by Moses McKenzie.
and the earth drank deep
Ntsika Kota
Ntsika Kota is the winner of the 2022 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Africa.
Animals
Michel Laub
‘I only stopped playing with him when he began biting the fingers of anyone who tried to pet him.’