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Embodying Venus

I HAVE A clear memory of the buttons – large, translucent-white plastic – and the teacher’s fingers unbuttoning the...

The way one fell

Richard the Lionheart waits in a dungeon with his brothers for their father, Henry II, to come kill them....

Vigil

ON THE TWENTY-EIGHTH day of Po Lin’s vigil, her mother opened her eyes and said, ‘Don’t pour that cheap...

Supernova

THE TELESCOPE SAT slightly apart from the clutter of the room – aloof, cool, shaded by a closed curtain....

Man of the people

 ‘IS HE HERE, yet?’ he asked, craning his neck to the left and right.‘Who?’‘The guy, what’s his name?’‘The guy?...

Father, son

LOOKING AT THE mammoth spot-lit ads for chubby babies and running shoes, he feels very far from home. When...

A little life

IT WAS AFTER ten at night when they finally arrived – three men and a woman, faces shining and...

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