Number 25

Eleven Orphaned Short-Story Openings (circa 1996–2012) Looking for a Loving Home

Zsuzsi Gartner·24th May 2016

'She came to us from Kansas City with smoke in her habit, shorn hair glinting copper. She came with her guitar and her firm belief in penance and her expertise in all things eschatological.'

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Five Short Stories

Lydia Davis·24th May 2016

A Story of Stolen Salamis My son’s Italian landlord in Brooklyn kept a shed out back in which he cured...

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Five Dials·10th August 2015

Fiction from Kevin Barry, Lydia Davis, D.W. Wilson and Nuala Ní Chonchúir. Poetry by Joe Dunthorne. And a charity matter: eleven orphaned short-story openings by Zsuzsi Gartner, looking for a home.

Back Issues Number 25 | The Big Corking Fiction Issue - Part I

Back Issues

Summer 23

Spring 23

Autumn 22

Interviews

Two Continents Back to Back

Instead of a Plaque in the Sidewalk, How About the Building Next to It?

‘The book is inflected by a general sense of apprehension that we all have at present – an awareness of the possibility of world-ending events.’

Fiction

For the Sake of Dangling Boys

Shalash Speaks . . .

It’s Me

Reportage

Who is Shalash the Iraqi?

Forgotten Traces

Mud

Verse

Three Poems

Four Poems

She’s on the Ching Again

Art

On Art, Walking With Our Sisters and the Problem with Reconciliation

Sinatra Sang in Sentences

An Album Can Last a Day

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