Stage 1: The initial period is one in which everything is new, exciting, and interesting for your students. It is fun for your students to explore their new environment.


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‘Sister Josephine tasted like sweat and freckles. She smelled easy to kill.’
Stage 1: The initial period is one in which everything is new, exciting, and interesting for your students. It is fun for your students to explore their new environment.
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‘The slutty ingenuity of vegetables when it comes to desire and reproductive methods is a marvel.’
Rebecca May Johnson negotiates allotment culture.
‘Globalisation is incomplete: money can go anywhere, but laws cannot.’
Oliver Bullough on one of Britain’s most contested outposts: the British Virgin Islands.
‘You discover during your very first lessons that the problem of singing better involves overcoming many other problems you had not ever imagined.’
A new story from Lydia Davis.
‘She began to count; it was easier this way, counting, because she would not have to remember how she felt.’
An excerpt from Ukamaka Olisakwe’s Ogadinma.
‘Like any desert, I learn myself by what’s desired of me—
and I am demoned by those desires.’
From Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz.
Karen Russell is the author of the story collection St Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves and the novel Swamplandia!, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and one of the New York Times's Top 5 Fiction Books of 2011. Her most recent story collection is Vampires in the Lemon Grove. In 2007 she was named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists.
More about the author →‘I think of betrayal as a crack in the veneer of humanity, an act that reveals to us, and others, our base animal nature.’
‘I think it’s impossible to draw a hard and fast line between reality and fantasy.’
‘Eleven of the stabled horses are, as far as Rutherford can ascertain, former presidents of the United States of America.’
‘Wolves brook no bureaucracy. They do not believe in borders. It has been years since we have come face to face with apex predators in our own country.’
‘an orange plastic basket of compost / down from the top of the garden – sweet dark, / fibrous rot, promising’
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