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Rostrum
Eley Williams
‘Certainly this kind of thing just happened sometimes – it was a glitch, an unfortunate error, and could happen to anyone.’
Fiction by Eley Williams.
Scandal
A. N. Wilson
‘His father had visited a prostitute and had been a spy. It was quite obvious to Julian that this was true. He was almost pleased to read it, for it justified his sense, never admitted to himself before, that Daddy Spoilt Everything.’
Second Dispatches from Ambassador to Brazil, Earth
Juan Pablo Villalobos
‘Forget about football: queuing and stamping are Brazil’s national sports.’
Seltz
Carlos Yushimito
‘I thought I’d found the answer to many of life’s mysteries, but I had no words to share with the world.’
Seven People with the Same Name and their Discrete Moments
Han Yujoo
Erica Chung’s translation of ‘Seven People with the Same Name and their Discrete Moments’ by Han Yujoo is the winner of Harvill Secker’s Young Translators’ Prize 2017.
Signal
Zakia Uddin
‘I had begun to google the therapist reflexively whenever I was bored.’
A short story by Zakia Uddin.
Skinned Alive
Edmund White
‘Once in a very great while he referred to me playfully as his ‘husband’, despite his revulsion against camp.’
Sorry to Disturb You
Jack Underwood
The only thing scarier than ghosts are the ghosts working at a call center.
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.’
