Issue 118

Judy Chicurel

‘I would have dreams that woke me in the middle of the night, my heart shaking inside my body.’

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Vanessa Manko

‘I am not an anarchist neither am I a communist.’

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Chinelo Okparanta

‘It is a reluctant kind of disregard that stems from a feeling of shame.’

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Daniel Alarcón

‘I'd been out of the Conservatory for about a year when my great-uncle Raúl died.’

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Anne Tyler

‘Sometimes the most recent moments can seem so long, long ago.’

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David Long

Alice Munro

‘She liked how the latticework would provide a touch of fantasy.’

Fiction by Alice Munro.

Jessica Thummel

‘John Wayne Durler had always needed something to run from.’

Jon McGregor

‘In winter there’s no danger of falling into the sky / Our bodies anchored to the ground by the weight of the light.’

Krys Lee

‘Houses loomed like ghosts. The government’s face was everywhere: on the sides of a beached cart, above the lintel of the post office.’

Hiromi Kawakami

‘His full name was Mr Harutsuna Matsumoto, but I called him ‘Sensei’. Not ‘Mr’ or ‘Sir’, just ‘Sensei’.’

Apricot Irving

‘His heart is a tired engine with too many loose screws and faulty wires, not weightless like the tissue-thin kites he used to fly with his grandfather as the string danced between his fingers.’

Lucy Wood

‘He was stamped darkly onto the wide stretch of sea like a single footprint.’

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Santiago Roncagliolo

‘I soon understood that if I wanted to get my father back I was going to have to help him get rid of the competition.’