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The Child
Kjersti A. Skomsvold
Translated from the Norwegian by Martin Aitken, an excerpt from The Child by Kjersti A. Skomsvold.
Orientation
Ben Pester
‘Graham is telling the woman that he is Orientating you. The woman in the blue cardigan looks at you and nods very solemnly.’
A story from Ben Pester’s Am I in the Right Place, available now from Boiler House Press.
Travellers Inside the Marquee
Eudris Planche Savón
‘Katherine Mansfield has just stolen my chance to begin a conversation.’
Fiction by Eudris Planche Savón, translated by Margaret Jull Costa.
Days of Ruin
Aniela Rodríguez
‘From the sea you came, and into the sea you were condemned to disappear.’
Fiction by Aniela Rodríguez, translated by Sophie Hughes.
Lost Children
Irene Reyes-Noguerol
‘The Girls sees. The Girl hears. The Girl says nothing.’
Fiction by Irene Reyes-Noguerol.
I’ve Been Away for a While
Dan Shurley
‘When the world releases him from its oily grip will there still be a world?’
In Bright Light
Paul Dalla Rosa
‘The hard thing, as Alice saw it, was that something bad had happened to her and it was private and then it wasn’t.’
My Phantoms
Gwendoline Riley
‘I’m not sure I even thought of him as a person, really. He was more just this – phenomenon.’
Asylum Road
Olivia Sudjic
‘She’d blinked at me kindly and said it must be sad when your country no longer exists, then returned to pulverising her asparagus.’