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The Birds
At the café in the gardens, I order a coffee and a date muffin from the waitress. The sun shines down on the climbing roses. An assortment of reds and ...
Trial
A young family is torn apart by the military junta in Argentina.
The Tarot Eaters
A couple exchanges fortunes and music, reading their futures together.
Dangerfield Describes a Sky
Once Dangerfield was on top of the world, but that was almost twenty years ago now. He didn’t even work at it back then; it just flowed out of him ...
Immortality
A long train trip home on endless steel rails through the swamp.
Best Laid Plans
On the good nights there was simply too much. Her legs tingled with nervous energy — the good nights were the nights of plans, dreams, and strategies, all carefully charted, ...
Water Into Whiskey
The house became vacant, in the way a place can only be with just one person; like the proverbial tree falling, emptiness requires a witness.
The Garden
The girls you need to watch are the ones who think they’re nice: pretty, well-dressed girls who are used to compliments, who think that if they smile at you you’ll ...
Driving with Svetlana
Svetlana Lupibatko has reached middle age. It arrived one morning without much notice and announced that it would be staying for at least ten years – perhaps even longer.
The Geometry of the Gaze
A writer is always serving sentences and is therefore always in prison.
Her Day Off
Obligations, unfinished chores, filled her head like a cloud of gnats. She closed her eyes, took a breath, and released them all back to the ether. But when she looked ...
Max405
We’re delighted to see Richard House longlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize. We published this short story by Richard back in 2010, a compelling slice of obsession and loss.
The Deep End
The recollection of his words strung together comes to her like a finger that keeps tapping her on the shoulder.
The Sound, Like Punishment
everyone’s shouting do it or fight or get him Kane or fucking do him, then Kane’s charging and the sound, thwack, like punishment, wood meeting temple
No Big Deal
I see her sitting in front of the screen, her eyes going up and down as if watching vertical ping pong. Her hair is tied up into a high ponytail ...
Until He Pulls Out the Knife
Until he pulls out the knife, the young man sitting in the corner is like every other homeless man that comes through the shelter, a little smelly, a little crazy, ...
Gone Into Private
I am at my PC looking for a girl called Alice. Only she isn’t really called Alice, I know that. But that’s what she calls herself on this website. I ...
Jane said we needed to talk about Eichmann
There were several months in the autumn of 2011 when we discussed Mary Poppins as a matter of routine. Neither Jane nor I had ever seen the film but every ...
The Key to Everything
He wanted a set of burnished keys that unlocked everything. He wanted a key to open bank vaults and executive suites, a key for molten doors on the surface of ...
What Happens When Someone Dies Twice
Well, we’ve been cuddling for seven months now, and I think you’re starting to get funny about having to share a bed with my grief. I think you think that ...