In Falls, North Carolina, in 1957, we had just one way of ‘coming out’.


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‘In Falls, North Carolina, in 1957, we had just one way of “coming out”. It was called getting caught.’
In Falls, North Carolina, in 1957, we had just one way of ‘coming out’.
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‘The flirtations of insects and plants are furtive, hidden and often so brief that if you literally blink you might miss what exactly is going on.’
Dino J. Martins on moths and orchids, from Granta 153: Second Nature.
‘The origin of the dysfunctional family: spores. / Friend or foe? True fern or ally?’
Poems by Sylvia Legris, author of Garden Physic.
‘And the trees were safely tucked in. Their roots were rallying in the soil, in this coil. Would the woman also take a turn for the better in her last decade?’
Three stories by Diane Williams.
‘walking alone down a country road – / distracted by the slightly annoying and toxic / first green of spring, eyes overflowing’
A poem by Emily Skillings.
‘Whatever the aftermath, you won’t see the city again except through the agency of absence, recalling this semi-emptiness, this viral uncertainty.’
From 2020: China Miéville on the UK government’s response to coronavirus.
Allan Gurganus’s novella, ‘Blessed Assurance’ was published in Granta 32. A collection of his stories, White People, was published by Faber & Faber and Alfred A. Knopf in 1991. His most recent novel is Plays Well With Others (1997).
More about the author →‘RALEIGH–A former funeral home employee charged with having sex with a body he was transporting pleaded guilty Wednesday after a psychiatrist testified that the man had sexual problems and that the incident probably was an isolated one.’
‘Why can’t the heart keep still and why isn’t the brain smooth to the touch.’
An excerpt from Ariana Harwicz’s novel Tender.
‘The bewilderment was productive, and relit a good fire under my instinct, which I didn’t have to conflate with certainty.’
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