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Common Whipping
Naben Ruthnum
A young film composer turns to prostitution in a short story by Naben Ruthnum, set in a Rome of the early 1970s.
Compartment
Ursula Scavenius
‘All I ask is that we arrive.’
A short story translated by Jennifer Russell.
Conspiracy of Males | New Voices
Evan James Roskos
‘Nothing was your fault. You defended no one. By default, you defended us.’
Cupcake
Yana Punkina
‘His voice had long since lost all superfluous timbral embellishments, he was left with only the raw thread of screeching.’
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.’
Days of Ruin
Aniela Rodríguez
‘From the sea you came, and into the sea you were condemned to disappear.’
Fiction by Aniela Rodríguez, translated by Sophie Hughes.
De roses et d’insectes
Chloé Savoie-Bernard
C’est une des premières choses que je lui ai dites, J’ai des daddy issues.
Dead Souls
Sam Riviere
‘The uproar was immediate. Criticism and condemnation rose on all sides.’
Sam Riviere on publishing’s deal souls.
Death Customs
Constantia Soteriou
Constantia Soteriou’s ‘Death Customs’, translated from the Greek by Lina Protopapa, is the winner of the 2019 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.
Desert Island Discs
George Steiner
‘His requests did stretch the resources, almost all-encompassing, of the sound-archive. But that is part of the game.’
Discipline
Geeta Tewari
‘Your virginity guarantees your happiness, my mother had explained numerous times.’ New fiction from Geeta Tewari.