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The Picnic Pavilion
Debbie Urbanski
‘They are wearing dresses. I am not wearing a dress. Another difference is they’re dead and I am not dead.’
Debbie Urbanski on the BRCA1 gene.
a cold white wing
Kate Zambreno
‘I wonder what I sounded like, whether my voice was recognizable as the animal I had been.’
Fiction by Kate Zambreno.
Signal
Zakia Uddin
‘I had begun to google the therapist reflexively whenever I was bored.’
A short story by Zakia Uddin.
The Schoolmaster’s Enemy
Missouri Williams
A new short story by Missouri Williams, author of The Doloriad.
Oldladyvoice
Elisa Victoria
‘I hope I never have to miss a playdate for catechism.’
An excerpt from Oldladyvoice, translated from the Spanish by Charlotte Whittle.
Just the Plague
Ludmila Ulitskaya
‘It seems to be more than he can cope with.’
An excerpt from Ulitskaya’s newly translated novel Just the Plague.
An Adult Taste
Kang Young-sook
‘The blood that flowed down the drain was a deep dark red, but it appeared clean, even refreshing.’
A new story by Kang Young-sook, translated from the Korean by Janet Hong.
One Muggy Spring, Thanks, Dot and Secretly Try
Diane Williams
Three short stories by Diane Williams.
The Disappearance of Mumma Dell
Roland Watson-Grant
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize for the region of the Caribbean
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.
The Color of Balloons
Dainerys Machado Vento
‘None of these people give a shit that a flock of birds is going to choke to death on those balloons, be they pink or blue.’
Fiction by Dainerys Machado Vento, translated by Will Vanderhyden.
