Israel in 600 Words or Less

His Idylls at Happy Grove

Ed’s Things

Eley Williams

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‘Certainly this kind of thing just happened sometimes – it was a glitch, an unfortunate error, and could happen to anyone.’

– Rostrum

Olivia Sudjic

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‘It dawned on her, the fact sliding ice-cold into her body; now that she had crossed the border into her forties, Alma herself was no longer eligible for the scheme.’

– The Termite Queen

Saba Sams

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‘I followed him onto the dancefloor and he put his hands on my hips as if he’d known me for at least an hour.’

– Gunk

Yara Rodrigues Fowler

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‘She rings a tiny cymbal over your body. She says, The experience is finished now.’

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K Patrick

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‘Without waiting for me she removes her white shirt. Each button a piece of my own spine, undone.’

– Mrs S

Derek Owusu

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‘I don’t remember his face, nor him as a whole.’

– Kweku

Thomas Morris

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‘If Wales win tonight, everything will turn out okay.’

– Wales

Anna Metcalfe

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‘He was grumpy in a way that I enjoyed. It reassured me that he was easily displeased – he was discerning, I thought.’

– Circles

Sophie Mackintosh

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‘The monstrous years of my late teens lay lined up alongside the rest of my life like bullets in a gun.’

– Theories of Care

Isabella Hammad

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‘I register that phrase with pleasure, my brother.’

– A Note in the Margin

Camilla Grudova

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‘We were sent to Wakeley Boarding School aged eight for Year Five and stayed on until Year Twenty.’

– Ivor