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The Café Margaux

by Martin Fisher

[ march 04 ]

"Violet also conjectured that Maria was having sex with Anton in between lunch and dinner; but if not, then he was certainly having sex with Johnny. Stella considered Violet's advice about leaving it all to Maria but refused to editorialise on the sex."

Double-O-Zero

by Kieran D'Angelo

[ march 04 ]

"I pull up outside BDG, among the riders, lying on their bikes in the rain, like belly-up lobsters in leather and kevlar shells. Limbs too numb for walking, lips too cold for talking, they're waiting for their hours to clock out, get dismissed, or to get a parcel that goes their way. "

The wall

by Beth Stiller

[ february 04 ]

"One night, after a loud knock on the door of apartment 11B, Concepcion lost her man and her first-born, and was impregnated by a stranger."

War probability power differential maximum impact

by Michael Standaert

[ february 04 ]

"Out here a man could make himself something that he had always wanted to be. This was the land of the rugged individualist he had often heard of yet never seen. This was the land of changing shape at will."

War comes to Pook's Hill

by Robert Davidson

[ february 04 ]

An allegory. "Pook's Hill, Richard, is where everyone has a place of his own and where everyone is safe and happy. It has an ancient history and an assured destiny and Puck is its Brownie spirit."

Robert's primal scream

by Robert M Smith

[ february 04 ]

"Picture a wild man on the loose, like Godzilla unleashed on Cleveland, Ohio. Picture King Kong climbing the Empire State Building, with a woman in one hand, and a jet airplane in the other. Well, that's how I feel."

The cost of money

by Kieran D'Angelo

[ january 04 ]

"Across the roundabout outside my building lay the local latehour discobar. Two bouncers, big white guys, their shaved heads tiny as zits on massive shoulders, skanked entrance fees on the strength of an afterhours' licence."

Nadia the Human

by Noah Cicero

[ january 04 ]

"'You can't even get a drink of water for yourself... You're fucking pathetic!' said Nadia from the kitchen. 'That statement is false,' said me calmly from the couch."