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Swan Song

For the first time in his life, the words refuse to come.

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Us Against You

Have you ever seen a town fall? Ours did.

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‘Miss Armstrong? Miss Armstrong, can you hear me?’

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The Water Cure

Once we have a father, but our father dies without us noticing.

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Summer

That I have my own lawn sprinkler has never quite dawned on me

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Ultimatum

‘Salaam, Ali-jaan. It’s me.’

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Meet Me at the Museum

Dear young girls, Home again from the deserts and oases of the Sheikdoms I find your enthusiastic letters on my desk.

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Tom Clancy's Line of Sight

Dr. Guzman rubbed her tired eyes.

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On Chesil Beach

They were young, educated, and both virgins on this, their wedding night, and they lived in a time when a conversation about sexual difficulties was plainly impossible.

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The President is Missing

The sharks are circling, their nostrils twitching at the scent of blood.

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Star of the North

The sea was calm the day Soo-min disappeared.

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The Year Everything Changed

On New Year’s Eve, 31 December 2001, we buried our son.

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True Blue

There was something about the colour of the Kimberley sky that gave Free a shiver of joy every time she drove home to Paterson Downs.

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The Grey Ghost

Late for work, Reginald Oren raced across the street, the cobblestones slick from the night’s rain.

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The Escape Room

It was Miguel who called 911 at 4.07 a.m. on an icy Sunday morning.

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Disobedience

And on the Shabbat, the priests would sing a song for the future that is to come, for that day which will be entirely Shabbat and for the repose of eternal life.

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Forever and a Day

‘So, 007 is dead.’

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More Happy Than Not

It turns out the Leteo procedure isn’t bullshit.

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Twelve Nights

The sun set at six minutes to four. Kay lay stretched out on the floor, reading the very small print on the back of the newspaper.

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The Burning Maze

NO. I refuse to share this part of my story.

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Warlight

In 1945 our parents went away and left us in the care of two men who may have been criminals.

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The Falcon of Sparta

In Babylon, starlings gaped in the heat, showing dark tongues.

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Whistle in the Dark

‘This has been the worst week of my life,’ Jen said.

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Nightfall Berlin

It began as a Swallows and Amazons sort of day.

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