What do we say when a year knocks the air out of us? When we started to put this issue together, the world was a different place. (I’m sorry to everybody I told... Read more
The first step is to move blinking into the light. Then, maybe, to survey the wreckage. Then, maybe, to renounce the fear in your dirty heart.
It is a fact u... Read more
Under this moon, take care of the long bones of your thigh, the sockets of your hip. Do not drain your drinks; leave an inch in the glass. Can you feel your liv... Read more
Sophie Mackintosh is the author of The Water Cure, which was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2018. She also won the White Review Short Story Prize 2016 and the Virago/Stylist Short Story Competition 2016, and has been published in Granta and TANK magazine, among others.
