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Our Circle
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
‘I am afraid that my memory is confused about these events, the final events of my life, by which I mean what happened before I started to go blind.’
Mother Care
Jayne Anne Phillips
‘After the birth and the overnight in the hospital she didn’t go downstairs for a week.’
Danner, 1965
Jayne Anne Phillips
‘She was sliding down on the seat under him and it was like the soundtrack at the drive-in – a surface closed over her.’
Termite’s Birthday, 1959
Jayne Anne Phillips
‘It's like by the time he was born there was too much to know.’
Rayme – A Memoir of the Seventies
Jayne Anne Phillips
‘This story could be about any one of those people, but it is about Rayme and comes to no conclusions.’
Buddy Carmody
Jayne Anne Phillips
‘No one was safe walking to church in the dark, but Buddy knew better than to beg not to go'.
Fast Lanes
Jayne Anne Phillips
‘I was vanished, invisible, another apartment left empty behind me, my possessions given away, thrown away, packed away in taped boxes fit into an available vehicle.’
In Summer Camps
Jayne Anne Phillips
‘The sky burned white to blond to powder to an almighty blue; the sun fell unobstructed.’
American Subsidiary
William Pierce
‘He was typing up another proposal for robots that would replace human workers in an engine factory.’
Visitors Welcome
Thomas Pierce
‘Our reasons for purchasing a reJesus no doubt require little explanation.’
