“‘Dad rung me earlier.’ It was the first time he’d ever rung me and as soon as I’d seen it was him at nine in the morning I had known. ...
“We burnt the machine that evening. No-one suggested it. There was no discussion. If I looked at it too long I felt like I could begin to discern its purpose. ...
“She wanted to go somewhere foreign, and just be herself for a while. The good thing about being somewhere foreign, she had realised very early on, was that she really ...
“In the middle of me saying something – ‘Hang on, Terry’s up.’ And she’s off, to fix my brother.”
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“He looks up. He can only see one airplane, but so many vapour trails streak the clear-blue sky, it’s scarred like a skating rink. Ice dancers to London Luton.”
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“Nobody ever tells you how numbing divorce is, how inert it leaves you, the silence once cherished in parts of the house now condemning as you struggle to conceive how ...
Brent van Staalduinen explores the ramifications of discovering three of his students with hashish in Kuwait, a conservative Muslim country that still has the death penalty for trafficking.
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Featuring new fiction from David Rose, Simon Holloway, Matthew Di Paoli, Kelly Creighton, Reece Choules, Michelle Bracken and Lucy Durneen – plus poetry from Dominic Stevenson, and an interview with ...
Dear Reader,
We all know the whims of lady luck. Looking back on 2014, most of us will have had our fair share of ...
Sleeping rough in modern London.
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The lonely existence of those who are left behind.
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Echoes of a childhood infatuation.
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Revisiting a past lover.
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Remembering the fallen.
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A meditation on inequality.
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Enduring the pain of loss.
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What happens after death?
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Lucy Durneen deconstructs an affair.
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In discussion with the award-winning author of Young Skins.
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