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The original Dybbuk
Menachem Kaiser

A story about afterlife. « A saint! What do you mean he’s a saint! the scholar says. He’s a librarian! Are librarians saints? »

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Trouble at work and home while my son is abroad
Francesco Pacifico

A story about living. « I have a family and I have a job and I have a teaching gig, and these things have me. »

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Perhentian Sunrise
Preeta Samarasan

A story about romance. « The eve of a suitor’s arrival, bigger than Christmas or birthday, I tell you. »

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A Silence Shared
Lalla Romano

« If a story just like that one — dying babies, divine retribution — had come back to me from childhood memories, it would have seemed fantastical, unreal. »

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The Ogre, the Monk and the Maiden
Margaret Drabble

A story about quarks and antiquarks, beauty quarks and strangelets, gluons, muons, prions, hadrons and charms.

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An Unlucky Man
Samanta Schweblin

« He rolled down the window, went back to honking the horn, and started waving my underpants out the window. »

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A Madman’s Tale
Enric Valor

« I guess it all began, » he said, « because of that weak-headedness my father sometimes had. It just rubbed me the wrong way. »

Contalla d'un orat
Enric Valor

« —Tot va ser, passe a creure—començà—, per enfellonir-me d’aquella mena de fluixedat de cap que agafà al meu pare. »

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Metaphrasis
Menachem Kaiser

A short story about fiction, from the author of Plunder.

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By misadventure
David Mitchell

A short story about vertigo from the author of Utopia Avenue, Cloud Atlas and Black Swan Green. « Possibly a dare, or a rite of passage, hung in the air. Remember their age: most late teenagers are immortal. »

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The final frontier
Ali Smith

New short fiction from the author of Autumn, Winter, Spring, and Summer. A story about what’s ours and what’s not ours.

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