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The Professor of Loss

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September 2022

Jekwu Anyaegbuna

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September 2022

The Professor stormed into the brothel’s reception hall in the evening and kicked away our singing radio. It flew through the air, slammed against...

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September 2022

Heliotrope

Wiggy Bob Snow

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September 2022

Catmint wakes up to the taste of milk and baking soda. He pushes his tongue against his teeth. Swallows...

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September 2022

Galapagos Man, Do You See?

Hannah Jingwen Lee

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September 2022

‘Where are my shoes?’   Alana is threading her way through New Year party detritus, coming towards him. Wallace...

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September 2022

Come Back, Freddy Krueger!

John Christopher

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September 2022

When I took my boyfriend, Freddy Krueger, home to meet my parents, they were disappointed, grey, fatigued, but not...

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September 2022

Under the Paving Stones, the Sofa

Alex Aspden

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September 2022

The email telling us to return to the office came last week, but I know when I step off...

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September 2022

Ruins

Leeor Ohayon

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September 2022

1.   A mural with a soldier and a worker at its centre. Broken tiles on the floor. A...

How Much Is That Doggie In The Window?

Fiction

August 2022

Gloria Mwaniga Odary

Fiction

August 2022

The day Mama threw a cooking stick at Kagonya was a November day so hot that the ripened bananas hanging on sisal rope from...

Fiction

June 2022

The Life of Andy

David Hayden

Fiction

June 2022

October 12, 1976, Soho, London. Andy stood in the alley outside the Prince of Wales. He felt in the...

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May 2022

Strangers

Benedict Andrews

Fiction

May 2022

On the final evening of the conference, Clara leaned against the railing of her fifth floor balcony and watched...

Amwaj

Fiction

April 2022

MK Harb

Fiction

April 2022

When the water first left us, so did the birds. Manzour, the great white pelican, no longer flew over our disappeared shores. His excessive grunt...

 

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