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Postpartum
“The boy’s eyes opened, as a wail escaped his pale lips. He must eat.” Today’s #StorySunday is “Postpartum” by Polly Goss.
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Under the Falling Sky
“His emotions had been amplified this way ever since the accident.” Today’s #StorySunday is “Under the Falling Sky” by Stephen Brophy.
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Murroi, The Story of a Calf
“Dhimitraq’s late arrival aroused interest”. Today’s #StorySunday takes us to 1940s communist Albania, during the collectivisation period.
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A Field Guide to Birds in Other Forms
You will notice the ruffle of feathers wherever you wander”. Today’s #StorySunday by Sally Gander is “A Field Guide to Birds in Other Forms”.
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Carpet Vandal
It makes him feel the same as on the day it happened, but he never cries.
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Noise
Sooner or later, everyone has to hear their voice for the first time.
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
The Lookout
I call you again and hear nothing back. I cross through swirling motes caught in greenish rays, over the carpet that I swear squelches under my shoes, towards the bedrooms ...
Mine
Would a more loving partner have pieced the clues together? Should I have known? It seemed so obvious now.
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Close To Me
For weeks, even months, after the gig, he remembered that feeling, could cling to it every now and then even as it faded or slipped from his grasp. He would ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Window, Amsterdam
He knows he is searching for something that is no longer there.
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Transference
I strained to identify flaws, anomalies, patterns in her biography; anything that would point, however subtly, to when and why her fear of elevators began.
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The Rain Spider
Rain spiders don’t like rain. That is why they come inside.
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Customer Enquiry
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Dear Customer #9375508,
Thank you for letting us know about your unsatisfactory experience. While our engineers at Girlfriend Factory™ are working hard to remove all technical difficulties, our customer ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
For Rent: A Museum
When they came for him, I did not ask questions.
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Mal Vu
You are fourteen when your dad moves the family halfway across the country to a place called River View. The name is a broken promise: your flat looks out onto ...
Closing Night
They’re closing this magic space of dust and light: the last nights, after months of fighting, of a Soho bar.
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Somebody
A fashion photographer remembers her start in the business, in a story examining the nature of success, the illusions we believe in and the boundaries which we contain ourselves within. ...
Borealis
A retelling of the ancient myth of Ariadne, told in Ariadne’s own words. The stories whose endings we think we know so well are so rarely what really happened. ...
Vicar
There is a vicar here – where I am going – this man who has forgotten – or never knew to begin with – what we are doing here. What ...
The Appellant
This is an appeal against the decision of the Citizens’ Health Commissioner (‘the Commissioner’) to refuse to grant a licence under Section 20 of the British Rights Act (‘the Act’). ...