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Jayne Anne Phillips

Jayne Anne Phillips is the author of two short-story collections, Black Tickets and Fast Lanes, and four novels, Machine Dreams, Shelter, Termites and MotherKind, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 2001. She directs the MFA Program at Rutgers-Newark, the State University of New Jersey. ‘Solly and Lark’, which appeared in Granta 100, is taken from her novel Termite.

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Solly and Lark

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‘If he got inside me I would never get away.’

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Termite’s Birthday, 1959

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‘It's like by the time he was born there was too much to know.’

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Mother Care

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‘After the birth and the overnight in the hospital she didn’t go downstairs for a week.’

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Buddy Carmody

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‘No one was safe walking to church in the dark, but Buddy knew better than to beg not to go'.

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In Summer Camps

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‘The sky burned white to blond to powder to an almighty blue; the sun fell unobstructed.’

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Fast Lanes

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‘I was vanished, invisible, another apartment left empty behind me, my possessions given away, thrown away, packed away in taped boxes fit into an available vehicle.’

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Danner, 1965

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‘She was sliding down on the seat under him and it was like the soundtrack at the drive-in – a surface closed over her.’

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Fiction | Issue 8

Rayme – A Memoir of the Seventies

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‘This story could be about any one of those people, but it is about Rayme and comes to no conclusions.’

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