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Bitter Tennis
Lucy Ives
‘I don’t know much about the cosmos, but I know enough to avoid the game of tennis.’
Postpartum
Geeta Tewari
‘I put the breast milk in the fridge and lie down on the bed. I pretend I am dead, underneath the earth with a bag of Cheetos.’
If You Start Breathing
Thea Lim
‘Sharing her pain with other people meant that her pain belonged to her less, Joanne belonged to her less.’
Portion of Jam
Mazen Maarouf
‘My father no longer goes to the hospital to work, because you don’t find nurses in wheelchairs working in hospitals.’
Man of Principle
Roy Chicky Arad
A novelette by Roy Chicky Arad, written after one of the wars of Israel in Gaza. Translated from the Hebrew by Maayan Eitan and Oded Even Or.
Susan and Miffy
Jane Campbell
‘The lust of an old man is disgusting but the lust of an old woman is worse. Everyone knows that.’
The Panther
Sergio Pitol
‘Haste did not grip the animal. He paced before me languidly, tracing small circles; then, in a single pounce he reached the fireplace.’
Yokosuka blue line
Steven Dunn
‘I close my eyes and circle my finger around the map. Wherever my finger lands.’
Stalingrad
Vasily Grossman
‘On the rampage, he truly did become a devil; it was impossible to restrain him.’ Translated from the Russian by Robert & Elizabeth Chandler.
No Machine Could Do It
Eugene Lim
‘In the future we have to be as interesting to the AI as our pets are to us.’
