Four Stories

Anam Zafar's translations of Najat Abed Alsamad's work offer shattering insights into everyday experiences of the war in Syria.

Fiction 9th March 2022

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‘I sit in my van and let it idle for a while, allowing the gentle hum of the engine to settle me. I take several deep breaths in. I don’t know why this has unnerved me so much. It is such a silly meaningless thing.’

Fiction 1st February 2022

The Baby

Fiction Issue 45/Volume 2: Winter 2021-22

Harlow

"His mother had a choice between keeping the monkey or having the baby. She told the story often, in company, with a roll of her eyes and a helpless grin, as if this was the sore spot, the branching crossroads where her life had gone wrong. "

Fiction 4th November 2021

Special Effects

Fiction Issue 45, Volume 2: Winter 2021-22

The Blackhills

Fiction Issue 45, Volume 2: Winter 2021-22

Implosions (an excerpt)

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The Interview

Fiction Issue 45, Volume 2: Winter 2021-22

The Goose Harvest

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Dwell

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The Johnny

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Talk To Bridget

Fiction Issue 45, Volume 2: Winter 2021-22

Every Forest, Every Film

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Luigi Lucheni

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Arrivals

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A Story

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Golem

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Respawn

'You talk and talk until you run out of breath and still when you get home there are things you wish you had said. Just once I would like to wake before myself and see what I am with my eyes closed.'

Fiction 6th October 2021

St Alban’s Drive

‘Your mother’s on the radio,’ she said, ‘being racist.’ This had surprised me; the radio bit. My mother had an aversion to talk radio.

Fiction 1st September 2021

Diana in a lonely place

An archaeology student's chance encounter on a summer dig in Greece brings a private obsession full circle and provokes a reckoning with past occurrences.

Fiction Issue 44/Volume 2: Summer 2021

The Youths

In this exquisitely written story of a relationship, two colleagues strike up a workplace rapport that will alter the course of their lives.

Fiction Issue 44/Volume 2: Summer 2021

Any Holidays?

"They wore travel outfits, comfy and subtle. Tiny shorts and big hoodies in creamy colours. Shorts said: actual holiday. Hoodies said: chill, not like the other young ones going away, flashing bikinis at baggage claim."

Fiction 12th August 2021

Peter and Jane

'Sometimes I long for home, but not home as it is now, home back then. Back when it was nice. When the sun was always out, and we could play all day out of doors. Before I had to be a woman.'

Fiction 7th July 2021

The Strange Kid

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The Mountain Lion

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For Someone To Remember Them

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Britney Spears’ Sandwich

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An Aesthetic Matter

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In The End

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Mallards

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