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My Father’s Lover Was Never the Stepdad I Wanted Him to Be
Isabel Waidner
A letter to footballer Justin Fashanu – excerpted from Isabel Waidner’s novel Sterling Karat Gold.
Ricks & Hern
Nico Walker
‘Naturally, no partnership is perfect. Certain pieces will be at odds – you’ll have that.’
Fiction by Nico Walker.
The Mountain Road
William Wall
‘Funeral homes are always cold. There were pine benches in lines like a church. They had been varnished recently and there was that heady smell. It reminded me of my father’s boat, the wheelhouse brightwork newly touched up. It was the smell of childhood.’
Ways of Knowing
Lauren Wallach
‘Maybe I was born with this face the way moths are born with the ability to blend in with bark, to survive.’
Stillness | State of Mind
Eoghan Walls
‘It is half twelve and I am labouring over the word Stillen. My laptop is open on the coffee table, pushed up against baby wipes and a row of empties.’
What Terrible Thing It Was
Esmé Weijun Wang
‘Dennis with his bespectacled eyes on his phone, performing the act of emotional multitasking. While I’ve been psychotic, he’s been phone banking.’
Given
Jesmyn Ward
‘Given played football with single-minded purpose his senior year, the fall before he died.’
In The Event
Eva Warrick
‘The sky hung bizarrely brownish and heavy below a pink teacup sun, like a portent of the outer space invasion.’
A story by Eva Warrick.
