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Upper Extremity

Claire Luchette

From Claire Luchette, author of Agatha of Little Neon.

Exit Father

Mai Nardone

‘He was a tossed coin, two faces alternating to catch the light.’

A story by Mai Nardone.

The Great Mistake

Jonathan Lee

‘The first attempt on the life of Andrew Green had occurred on Thanksgiving Day in 1873.’

An excerpt from the new novel by Jonathan Lee.

Granddaughter of the Octopus

Rémy Ngamije

Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize for the region of Africa.

Inti Raymi

Mónica Ojeda

‘The children crossed the valley of ringing rocks, of bird bones, of fox feet.’

Fiction by Mónica Ojeda, translated by Sarah Booker.

Dengue Boy

Michel Nieva

‘Where his mother had surely hoped for a sweet little mouth, Dengue Boy had misshapen flesh bristling with maxillary palps.’

Fiction by Michel Nieva, translated by Natasha Wimmer.

The Animal Gesture

Alejandro Morellón

‘I have drunk from the same waters as the son of Hermes and Aphrodite.’

Fiction by Alejandro Morellón, translated by Esther Allen.

Levert’s Appearance

José Adiak Montoya

‘But as everyone will surely know, that’s not what came to pass.’

Fiction by José Adiak Montoya, translated by Samantha Schnee.

Ode to Cristina Morales

Cristina Morales

‘She who says knockout, who says tap-out, speaks the words of glory.’

Fiction by Cristina Morales, translated by Kevin Gerry Dunn.

The Mob and the Crowd

Noémi Lefebvre

‘The purveyors of legitimate violence are what matter above all’.

An excerpt from the novel Poetics of Work.

Your Delicate Body

Caleb Azumah Nelson

‘And it wasn’t that day, or the day after, but sometime after that, you cried in your kitchen.’

Faith

Sayaka Murata

‘Hey, Nagaoka, wanna start a new cult with me?’

New fiction by Sayaka Murata, translated from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori.

Dancing for the Avatar

Kō Machida

‘If I let myself sink down into this I’m never coming back up.’

Shame

Mieko Kawakami

‘During sex, Narumi would picture herself as steamed rice being turned into mochi rice cakes.’