“I noticed the way his face got a little bit ugly when he talked about money.” Today’s #StorySunday is “A Very Small Man” by Claire Maxwell.
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“I like looking out over the expanse of this city…” Today’s #StorySunday is “Alyssa in Budapest” by Áine Travers.
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A woman and a young girl escape to the south of Spain in an attempt to hide, in today’s #StorySunday, “Jellyfish”, by Jessica Ziebland.
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“But up here in the mountains, survival tasted different.” Today’s #StorySunday is “The Big Hush” by Cassandra Passarelli.
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“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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“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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“Dhimitraq’s late arrival aroused interest”. Today’s #StorySunday takes us to 1940s communist Albania, during the collectivisation period.
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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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It makes him feel the same as on the day it happened, but he never cries.
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Sooner or later, everyone has to hear their voice for the first time.
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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 ...
Would a more loving partner have pieced the clues together? Should I have known? It seemed so obvious now.
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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 ...
He knows he is searching for something that is no longer there.
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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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Rain spiders don’t like rain. That is why they come inside.
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When they came for him, I did not ask questions.
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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 ...
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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