I should not be here to tell this story.
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September, 1973
Ariel Dorfman
‘It's that simple: there is a day in my past, a day many years ago in Santiago de Chile, when I should have died and did not.’
Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists 5
A Certain King
‘I didn’t think she was happy; I thought she was in love, but I didn’t know what that told me, if it told me anything.’
Fiction by Jennifer Atkins.
The Hair Baby
‘She has been ten for a month and she does not like it. She carries the weight of her extra digit like a chain-mail vest.’
Fiction by Sara Baume.
She’s Always Hungry
‘I could hear the sea, and I could hear my own name.’
Fiction by Eliza Clark.
The Room-Service Waiter
‘There was to be an exhibition. There were lots of pictures like his, apparently – of waiters, pastry cooks, valets, bellboys.’
A story by Tom Crewe.
Kweku
‘I don’t remember his face, nor him as a whole.’
Derek Owusu on fathers and family.
