A man plays a creepier, lonelier private game on the London Underground.
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A reversal of gender roles forces the reader to consider a different perspective. Continue Reading We’ll Have to See How it Goes
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a magical story that charts green eyed Dido’s trajectory of love Continue Reading Dido in Texas
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An account of an unusual hostage situation Continue Reading Mantis
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A town turns against a school girl when the unimaginable happens Continue Reading Birth to Snakes
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Five, nineteen, twenty and forty-four. I played with the four numbers in my head while I wrote them down and passed the order through the hatch into the kitchen. The ...
My memory is of Rolly under me, marveling “we just want to please each other,” while I peered down at my pressed white breasts rocking against his damp chest. The ...
An exclusive extract from Michael Nath’s forthcoming novel, The Treatment. At The Black Gun, Kim’s boyfriend made a fuss of Claire, which was just to be welcoming, and had Kim pretending ...
We pick one from among us. Her name is Karen. Karen can’t believe it. Or at least she acts like she can’t. “Me?” Karen’s eyes, unremarkable only moments ago, become ...
Ordinarily, I would have continued on my way to Enugu and only wondered what some brown huts were doing up a hillock when they should be located somewhere in northern ...
Insideout.com is an important bridge between the inmate’s day-to-day life and the outside world. Research has shown huge implications for the rehabilitative benefits of communication for prisoners. Emotional and even ...
Allan had only just sat down at his desk, but already he could feel the prickly heat radiating off his chest. Appreciatively, gratefully, he looked left out the classroom windows ...
It’s the eyes, man. The fucking eyes. They look at ye like yer something disgusting, something deplorable. But also something to be pitied. Like a mangy dog, man. Like a ...
When I try to understand this place, I don’t. The cups are hovering over the tables, and liquid is suspended in clouds above the cups. Chair legs do not reach ...
From the novel White Chrysanthemum, published by Chatto & Windus. It is nearly dawn, and the semi-darkness casts strange shadows along the footpath. Hana distracts her mind so that she ...
Of all the little hedgehogs in the garden, there was one that they rarely saw. She lived alone by the northern fence. Her home was cold and draughty, and she ...
The first time I had broke into my grandmother’s backyard to smoke menthols and poison her flowers was four months ago, when the Arizona air was still hot with monsoon ...
Translated by Agnel Joseph. Unlike how he sounded on the phone, the man came across as agreeable in person. He stated his business briefly, giving Adams the impression he was ...
Are there limits to unrequited love? Continue Reading Love in the Singular
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A story that feels doubly poignant in the Me Too era…. Continue Reading The Black Shop
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