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Missing Out
Leila Aboulela
‘She had held the day up with pegs; not only her day but his too.’
Fiction by Leila Aboulela.
Dyke Bridge
Peter Orner
‘My brother and I in the knee-deep water, standing in the tidal current, under Dyke Bridge.’
The Last Thing We Need
Claire Vaye Watkins
‘I think there will be lightning tonight; the air has that feel.’
In Goats’ Eyes is the Sky Blue?
Natsuo Kirino
‘The people locked up in Administrative Camp 16 weren’t allowed clocks. In fact there wasn’t a single clock to be found, even in communal areas.’
The Unwriteable
Mark Doty
‘When I was seventeen, a freshman in college living in my parents’ house, I met Ruth at a poetry reading.’
Tokyo Island
Natsuo Kirino
‘The lottery to choose her next husband was to take place at the Imperial Palace.’
Zeppelin
Herta Müller
‘This Zeppelin may not float high and silver in the sky, but it does set your mind adrift.’
This is for You
Emmanuel Carrère
‘I have a proposition for you. From this moment on, you will do everything I tell you to do.’
The Agony of Intimacy
Jeanette Winterson
‘We all knew that about the gods – that they were total sex.’
