The train station was crowded. Flashes of the floor showed black slush dragged into the scuffle from outside. […]
short stories
One moment, the air between the walls and the furniture and the people was filled with nothing besides […]
—Why do you want to see my toes? —Curiosity. —I’m afraid of the consequences. I wouldn’t want you […]
All the places you’ll never go back to, all the places where you once lived, all the languages […]
Guadalupe Nettel’s Bezoar is a collection of unsettling and intense short stories, focusing on small, private moments which […]
When is a book a book of short stories and when is it a collection? The difference might […]
For the eighteenth episode of The Quarantine Hotline Fernando Sdrigotti talks to Carolina Orloff, editor of Edinburgh-based Charco […]
Short stories: how not to despair with the unjust way they are treated in the world of British […]
For the fifteenth episode of no longer new Quarantine Hotline series, we speak to Sylvia Warren, from Oxford, […]
An interview series in which we beat the lockdown blues reaching out to friends for a nice and […]
