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The Book of Goose
Yiyun Li
‘Just follow me, she had said, you do nothing but what I tell you to.’
An extract from Yiyun Li’s new novel.
Sinkhole
Rosanna McLaughlin
‘She’d always been a heavy sweater, ever since puberty first coated her skin with downy fur, transforming the climate of her body into something dank and grotty.’
An excerpt from Rosanna McLaughlin’s Sinkhole.
Édouard’s Sixteen
Kevin Lambert
‘Laurence’s busy pre-mourning himself and his lover; he knows their thing’s got an end date, it’s not far off now.’
A story by Kevin Lambert, translated from the French by Jeffrey Zuckerman.
Vapors
Rebecca Miller
‘She turned toward the voice and there he was, standing there, like Death.’
A short story by Rebecca Miller.
and the earth drank deep
Ntsika Kota
Ntsika Kota is the winner of the 2022 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Africa.
The Last Diver on Earth
Sofia Mariah Ma
Winner of the 2022 Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize for Asia.
Divination
Guadalupe Nettel
‘It is easy, when we are young, to have ideals and to live according to them.’
An excerpt from Guadalupe Nettel’s Still Born.
Bridge Over the Yallahs River
Diana McCaulay
Winner of the 2022 Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize for the Caribbean region.
An English Opening
Maxim Osipov
‘In a bad position, any move is worthless.’
New fiction by Maxim Osipov, translated from the Russian by Alex Fleming.
Staying In
Lieke Marsman
‘I’m a cucumber, a cucumber, a cucumber, I would whisper aloud to my eight-year-old self.’
An excerpt from Lieke Marsman’s new novel.
Thomas
Eloghosa Osunde
‘It’s a story that happens to you once and then lives with you forever.’
An excerpt from Vagabonds! by Eloghosa Osunde.
