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Sign of the Gun
P. D. Mallamo
‘You are going to be lonely for a while, he says to himself at six p.m. on a Thursday and orbits the field three times before dropping in like he’s crashing, just beyond the edge of the canyon.’
Something to Tell You
Hanif Kureishi
‘I’d have dumped her if it wouldn’t have caused more problems than it solved.’
Three Character Sketches
Mario Vargas Llosa
‘For Fataumata, and others like her, dying tragically is dying naturally.’
In-flight Entertainment
Helen Simpson
‘All you needed for the modern world was to know how to work a remote control.’
The Unknown Known
Martin Amis
A satire on fundamentalism in this extract from an unpublished manuscript.
The White Hole of Bombay
Nicholas Shakespeare
‘If you like people who hate each other, it’s paradise.’
Estonia, Out in the Country
Ingo Schulze
‘I didn’t believe my eyes, not even when I saw what was happening in front of them.’
