A young trans woman gets her ears pierced for the first time.
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You avoid talking about the girlfriend. The less you know, the less you are incriminating yourself in this mortal sin.
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Backfoot’ is set in a world where people can choose to know the date of their death. When Meg discovers hers has changed radically, it throws up doubts about her ...
She walks alone like a ghost and the wind goes through the grass and trees and whispers and is gone.
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The morning after his birthday night out, Cam confides in an estranged friend over his changed expectations and perceived failure in life on reaching the landmark age of thirty. There ...
He is waiting for him. There are no phones. This is 2005.
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A story about a woman recovering from an ectopic pregnancy in Morocco.
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Themes of rejection, loneliness and numbness are used to explore life after losing someone who your identity is inevitably linked with.
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I knew something was wrong with Polly the day she said the sun was dead.
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Once alone, you wedge a cigarette in your mouth, the room still your domain for the next fifteen minutes. Because it’s paid for the hour. Because you deserve it.
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Marina didn’t just want my words, she wanted touch. In public. Kissing, Embracing. Airports. Library PDA. And not just anywhere but here – where people assumed I was a gypsy ...
The unimagined victims of Covid-19.
About ...
He asked me about my addiction. I told him how it felt for me: like a gold chain trickling into my palm, smooth locks clicking into place.
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I dry flowers in the afternoons. I hang them up by their tails, let their heads droop down, plump and bulbous.
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“You look very nice.” The compliment felt awkward coming from his mouth, like the first one he’d given her, over-rehearsed and unconfident.
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“Bunch of hooligans. Will you look at that? Broken glass and everything. This play park is for kiddies….”
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The man took a long sip of whiskey, then he told them how it all started. It happened when he was about nine or ten years old, and he was ...
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George stands on his rooftop
terrace and looks down over the city. It is nearly time for his guests to arrive
and he is feeling bullish. Every movement on ...
The thing is I’m actually the real deal, not one of those fakes or tricksters who prey on people, who take advantage of them and make a few dollars ...
The orchidometer is a medical device for measuring testicles. It’s not very sophisticated, it’s actually just a string of oval beads, graduating from small to large, and painted bright jolly ...