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Whale
Panos Karnezis
‘Whale arrived at work a little after seven with black circles round his eyes’.
Moscow, Idaho
Chris Offutt
‘Tilden stopped digging and wiped his sleeve across his forehead, leaving a brown smear on his skin.’
Creatures of the Earth
John McGahern
‘They alone among all the creatures of the earth would never have to go that way.’
The Judgement of Lut
Tim Lott
‘The point is, in the tower, on that night, certain gods revealed themselves to one another and came into conflict.‘
The Moon and the Batteries
Hiromi Kawakami
‘His full name was Mr Harutsuna Matsumoto, but I called him ‘Sensei’. Not ‘Mr’ or ‘Sir’, just ‘Sensei’.’
Drifting House
Krys Lee
‘Houses loomed like ghosts. The government’s face was everywhere: on the sides of a beached cart, above the lintel of the post office.’
Crossing Cut Creek | New Voices
Erin McMillan
‘Light rose over Mama’s tanned arms, Keller’s dirty hair. The air was thick with colour and swirling dust, and we were still, suspended in it.’
That Year in Rishikesh
Adriana Lisboa
‘The pulp from her processing of the world was a mixture of past, present, dreams, imagination, films, books, newspaper articles, anything.’
Her Lousy Shoes
Tracy O’Neill
‘On good days, he could believe that that was exactly what he appeared to be: pedestrian, a pedestrian, a walker, walking, going places, on the ups, possessing two healthy feet at least.’
