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Goal 666
Stacey Richter
‘I began to feel almost ill with a kind of unpleasant pleasure, like being tickled.’
Submersion
Ross Raisin
‘It is obvious now that we can have no control over our journey, or its end.’
The Lawyer’s Story
Paul Theroux
‘Bow tie, blue shirt, tight suit, cowboy boots—he was overdressed for Singapore.’
The Golden Bough
Salman Rushdie
‘The same face. At every interview the same bland features. It could not be – but it was.’
Phantom Pain
Lydia Peelle
‘Something’s out there. Something has shown up in the woods of Highland City.’
The Law of White Spaces
Giorgio Pressburger
‘It was beginning to seem as if his brother’s fate depended on him, on his ability, or lack of it, to learn the prayer for the dead.’
Early One Morning
Helen Simpson
‘He's the only person in the world who listens to me and does what I tell him (thought Zoe).’
Hands Across the Water
Rachel Seiffert
‘Dark red hair. Wee skirt and trainers, bare arms. All those freckles.’
Moscow Dynamo
Victor Pelevin
‘That's why they're able to live like normal human beings, he thought, because they never forget about their duty. They don't spend all their time getting pissed like folks here.’
Victory Mills
Mona Simpson
‘I have driven a car on acid, carried my mother drunk upstairs and slept with numerous men and one woman to no consequence.’