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Short stories, poems...The Anatomy of a Beating (Issue: 100)
It’s one of those times of the day when my abs disappear under the swell from being twelve hundred calories heavier post-workout. But I can still get away with an extra small T-shirt, as long as I breathe in.read more...
Extract from The Rice Paper Diaries (Issue: 100)
'Where have you come from?' he asked me gently, reaching for his pen. He had two pots on the table, one for brushes, one for pens. Sheaves of paper were rolled up underneath his chair, on a tray. He pulled out one of the smallest ones. He must be used to this. A girl off one of the ships from the Pearl River Delta, still smelling of the mulberries that grow on her parents’ poor smallholding. He knew what to expect. A few words, just to let the family know I’ve arrived. You too will have to pay someone to read it to you, after all.read more...
Tokyo Spaces (Issue: 100)
I arrived in Setagaya to a flat I had rented unseen. A large concrete structure over three floors originally designed as a single home, now carved up on the inside into modest spaces that would house no more than one. The company had gone bust, new developers had taken over, and now the plan was to maximise the number of small spaces that might be cut in. I imagined a hive, the interior cleverly divided, the spaces balanced. Except developers aren’t bees. These guys wanted that space chopped up into as many spaces as possible, packed with as many renters as they could get. Any aesthetic had long since flown.read more...
The Tapas Machine (Issue: 100)
he thought it odd, but if the woman wanted him to take the CD player out of her car & replace it with a tapas machine then who was he to argue.it had taken him hours on the computer tracking down such a device. he spilt his tea all over the mouse pad & scalded the cat when eventually he found a company in tijuana specialising in auto catering customisation service & repair.
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Lifeboat (Issue: 100)
You hear, on the slight breeze, the tunt tunt tunt, tunt tunt before you see the boat. A low craft, inflatable, orange, a few yards out from shore. You feel illicit.When the boat comes alongside they cut the engine. Shout.
Waves break, the breeze. You don’t hear. Swash filters in the pools.
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A Perfect Queen (Issue: 100)
I look for Mama even though I know she is never here when I come home from school. There are flowers on the table in the hall. In the guests’ bathroom I see a freshly ironed linen towel, its neatly ironed pleats like those in my uniform. And there are new, violet soaps, with a scent of violets. Guests are expected tonight.read more...
Boa Constrictor (Issue: 100)
Today I feel as though I've known Alun Richards my entire life, though I never met him. I was a published writer before I’d read him. And then, all at once, I seemed to know his work completely, because his Wales, like mine, was outward looking, rich with the influence of immigrants, non-Welsh speaking. read more...
My Mary Jane (Issue: 100)
...all foot fetishism begins with that early calibration by the Clarks woman: the placing of the socked foot gently on the gauge and the coasting of the wooden marker down through the ages until it hits the big toe. And as the foot size creeps incrementally up the ruler, another rite of passage is born, another playground pissing contest to be had.read more...
New Man, Neuman (Issue: 100)
It’s not known for certain whether it was Jacobo himself, or maybe his father, maybe his grandfather. But Jacobo’s surname, my own surname, came about through trickery.read more...
Oedipus Rex (Issue: 99)
‘Oedipus Rex’ by João Morais was shortlisted in April 2013 for the Percy French Prize for Comic Poetry.read more...
Lake Story (Issue: 99)
An exclusive preview from Mary-Ann Constantine's forthcoming second collection of short stories All The Souls which will be published by Seren in the spring.read more...
Beyond the Barren Lands (Issue: 99)
Brigend's 'Suicide Spate': poetry by Zoë Brigley and photography by Nathan Roachread more...
Obituaries (Issue: 98)
Zillah Bethell lives in south Wales. Her first two novels, Seahorses Are Real and Le Temps des Cerises, are published by Seren. She is currently working on her latest book, Woman in a Dandelion Paperweight.read more...
According to Adrian (Issue: 98)
A response to The Dead of Night: The Ghost Stories of Oliver Onionsread more...
For the tiny insect casting a long shadow across the page of a Burton Watson translation of Ch’i-Chi (Issue: 98)
Poemread more...
Margaret River Sestets (Issue: 97)
Winner of the 2012 Cardiff International Poetry Competition.read more...
Eric 'n' Ernie (Issue: 96)
‘What d’you think of it so far?’ Asks the little one with the hairy legs. ‘Rubbish!’ says the other.read more...
On Mohammed Farid Street (Issue: 96)
A response to David M Beddoe’s The Lost Mameluke, A Tale of Egypt.read more...
Rainer Maria Rilke, from Sonnets to Orpheus (Issue: 95)
Extract from Martyn Crucefix's forthcoming translation.read more...
Extracts from the Diaries of Dyfrig Prydderch, 1936 (Issue: 95)
In the 1930S, welshman Dyfrig Prydderch lived in Romania, travelling there and recording his impressions of life in the country.read more...
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