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Armadillo Man
Julianne Pachico
‘The Armadillo Man is watching her. She gives him a good show – the best she has to offer.’
Performance Art
Manjula Padmanabhan
‘A single pod of cardamom! Was that enough? To flavour an entire life’s pot of time?’
The Great Indian Tee and Snakes
Kritika Pandey
Kritika Pandey’s ‘The Great Indian Tee and Snakes’ is the overall winner of the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize as well as the regional winner from Asia.
Middle Ground
Georgina Parfitt
‘At school, the primroses were coming out. Brighton was eleven, and every day now there was something new emerging.’
A story by Georgina Parfitt.
Mrs S
K Patrick
‘Without waiting for me she removes her white shirt. Each button a piece of my own spine, undone.’
An extract from Mrs S by K Patrick.
Here We Go
David Peace
‘The finance officers read the answers in silence, then returned them to be burned.’
Tokyo Year Zero
David Peace
‘The song, the voice, and the heat; men on their knees, heads in hands, sobbing and now howling.’