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The Fucking Lake

Diane Williams

New short fiction from Diane Williams. ‘The major events of my life are done with, except, of course, for my final downfall.’

The Kabul Markhor

Nell Zink

‘He felt very lonely after spending the winter holed up in his cabin eating Doritos.’

The Unpunished Vice

Edmund White

‘Reading is at once a lonely and an intensely sociable act.’

Web

Joy Williams

‘She was Some Pig. Her eggs easily incorporated the human genetic code. All her piglets were star patents.’

Wild Failure

Zoe Whittall

‘They’re driving their failing relationship into the desert.’