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People Who Live Here
Holly Pester
‘Another man dithering around six foot two had recently moved in.’
A story by Holly Pester, author of Comic Timing.
Performance Art
Manjula Padmanabhan
‘A single pod of cardamom! Was that enough? To flavour an entire life’s pot of time?’
Phantom Pain
Lydia Peelle
‘Something’s out there. Something has shown up in the woods of Highland City.’
Philanthropy
Suzanne Rivecca
‘They were all perpetually cowed by their own brutality, quivering and defeated by the measures they were forced to enact.’
Plastic
Graham Swift
‘Sorting out the world! He should have sorted out himself and his own jeopardized household.’
Pobby and Dingan
Ben Rice
“I’m looking for my daughter’s imaginary friends and you’d better bloody well believe it, mate!”
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.’
Preserves for Life
Olga Tokarczuk
‘He came upon one under the kitchen sink labelled ‘Shoestrings in vinegar, 2004’, and that should have alarmed him.’
Put Not Thy Trust In Chariots
Jonathan Tel
'David had nothing against Arabs personally.This despite the fact he was religious (he wore a blue-and-white kippa which had been knitted by his wife, Devorah, as an engagement present.'
Rachel Reaches Out
Ben Pester
‘She hit send and sighed as the email-whoosh came through her headphones. Theo was sitting at his desk less than six metres away.’
