Nothing remains. In the end, nothing matters. The lilting sound of a whistle emerges in the distance again – the rise and fall of breath through someone’s lips – but this time Ira pays no heed. Her ...
She had come in through the back door late at night adorned like a bride. Standing alone in the vast white marbled kitchen, adjusting her thick green sari bouse, the fresh smell of jasmine infused ...
Sali Hughes is a leading journalist, presenter and broadcaster with over 24 years’ experience. A former magazine editor, she is the beauty editor on the Guardian. In 2018, she co-founded the ...
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Jeff VanderMeer is an award-winning novelist and editor. His fiction has been translated into twenty languages and has appeared in the Library of America’s American Fantastic Tales and in multiple ...
Hiroshi built his wife in June. Rainy season had just hit Tokyo. The air grew humid, almost cloying. Mirrors of light bathed the city streets. Subway floors glistened under soaked soles. Hydrangeas ...
J. G. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai, where his father was a businessman. After internment in a civilian prison camp, he and his family returned to England in 1946. He published his first novel, ...