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This is for You
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‘I have a proposition for you. From this moment on, you will do everything I tell you to do.’
Embrace
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‘Love is a concept about which I have long been very sceptical. I have seen the damage that can be done, and can be justified, in the name of love.’
Fiction by Kevin Brazil.
Ed’s Things
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‘The past is no longer behind me but in front.’
An extract from About Ed by Robert Glück.
Close to Home
Michael Magee
‘I thought about how I had tricked everyone into thinking I was hard, that I could handle myself, without ever having to throw a punch.’
An extract from Close to Home by Michael Magee.
Biography of X
Catherine Lacey
‘Grief has a warring logic; it always wants something impossible, something worse and something better.’
An extract from Biography of X by Catherine Lacey.
The Lens Factory
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‘It made him feel lopsided, this sense of being plucked at by nervousness and dread.’
