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The Silkworms
Janet Frame
‘Nothing has changed, Edgar said. What new event is written into their history? None. Where is their future? Nowhere. Are they against or for progress? It was dark when Edgar took the box outside down to the rubbish heap and sprinkled the dead moths upon the ashes of the diseased pawpaw.’ Janet Frame on an unsettling natural process.
The Destiny of Nathalie X
William Boyd
’I once heard a theory about this town, this place where we work and wrangle, where we swindle and swive‘.
Call If You Need Me
Raymond Carver
‘I think I even used the phrase second honeymoon to the realtor, God forgive me, while Susan smoked a cigarette and read tourist brochures out in the car’.
The Separated
Tim Lott
‘It is a short January day, unseasonably warm. The afternoon is getting dark and it isn't yet four o'clock’.
This is Centerville
James Buchan
‘In the imagination of strangers there is a small town in America which represents not just itself but the whole country‘.
