Tag: Short Stories
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Pastoralia
“Why do you think everything you think is everything everybody else thinks?”
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Orange World
“The past, with its monstrous depth and span, reached toward him, demanding an understanding that he simply could not give it.”
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Whatever Happened to Rick Astley
“Whatever happened to Rick Astley? She imagined that he was happily married with children. A record producer, perhaps? That was the usual way with singers, wasn’t it?”
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We Move
“You only had to wait so long when reading a western story about India to come across a mango, a railway or a spiritual awakening”
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The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
“But maybe you should question the people who taught you this version of God. Because it’s not doing you any favors.”
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An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life
“Then, after four, there would be calm, and by five, when the night manager left to do the night’s cash drop, the floor staff would sit on milk crates behind the restaurant, next to the skip, and smoke weed, and though no one offered Sam weed, Sam would sit with them or stand in their…
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Liberation Day
“Seen in retrospect, yes: I have regrets. There was a certain critical period. I see that now.”
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A Christmas Carol
“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.”
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