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Sam Byers
‘Across the country, at any given moment lives are unravelling in rooms of crushing uniformity.’
Permafrost
Eva Baltasar
‘This never made sense to Roxanne, whose whole life was a treat.’
Translated from the Catalan by Julia Sanches.
Night as It Falls
Jakuta Alikavazovic
‘There wasn’t much money. His father had been blunt: the classes were fine, the rest wasn’t.’
Sleeping Beauty
Laura Demers
‘It’s normal not to be offered anything to eat or drink when you are a princess.’
Slobber and Drool
Jess Arndt
‘My face, not the glass, was blurry. I had no idea what I really looked like besides lumpy, fuzzy, profuse.’
Gospel
Carys Davies
‘I would explain to you then, if I could, the theory that in the case of hairline shape, there are two possible variants or alleles: straight, or widow’s peak.’
In the Beginning
Diane Cook
‘They flavored their early stews with bacon. None of that stuff lasted long, though. That first day felt like a vacation in a wondrous new place. That feeling didn’t last long either.’
Amma
Sindya Bhanoo
‘She appeals to the fisherman, the rickshaw driver, the bricklayer. Her devotees are of all types’
The Mistake
Peter Cameron
‘Yes, I was sick, she said. You’re very observant. She raised her hand and wiped the back of her leather glove across her lips.’
A/S/L
Emma Cline
‘It was the afternoons that did it, three o’clock like a kind of death knell, the house seeming too still, too many hours of sunlight left in the day. How had Thora even started going to the chat rooms?’
How Things End
Ann Beattie
‘As I began to flip through a literary magazine, I was stopped by a photograph of myself as a young girl, standing beside my college professor.’
