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Lesley Nneka Arimah
‘When Enebeli Okwara sent his girl out in the world, he did not know what the world did to daughters.’ 2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize – regional winner for Africa.
The Gentlest Village
Jesse Ball
‘You are learning – learning a great deal. It is too much for you, so your body bows out. Then you wake up and you can continue.’
Dreamed in Stone
Jon Fosse
‘You were a chasm that cracked and turned into stones, and then the stones lay there, beautifully laid, in a wall.’
Her Lousy Shoes
Tracy O’Neill
‘On good days, he could believe that that was exactly what he appeared to be: pedestrian, a pedestrian, a walker, walking, going places, on the ups, possessing two healthy feet at least.’
The Florida Motel
Kevin Canty
‘Suddenly she understood what she was doing here. She was among strangers, the place where Bill had chosen to spend his life.’
Krapp Hour (Act 2)
Anne Carson
‘this is my theory of her awake all night worrying about little wild animals active in the dark’
The second instalment of Anne Carson’s fictional TV show.
The Archive
Sebastià Jovani
‘The aim of this study is to visualise a means of understanding the essential aspects of a literary text.’
The Buzzard’s Egg
China Miéville
‘I can’t remember: did a young man destroy his miserable god, or did a god free its worshipper and take his blood and his bones?’
Item Girls
Kuzhali Manickavel
‘I have heard the item girls singing each to each. / I do not think they will sing to me.’