Attentat
Original Danish text of Maja Elverkilde’s ‘Assassination’.
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In the Footsteps of the Prince
“The Glasgow groups were always the hardest work. You couldn’t tell them anything. They thought they knew everything.” Story of the Week (September 18), by David McVey.
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Let Me Go
“All of a sudden the machines start going mad. I see his large frame shaking uncontrollably and I shout for the nurse.” Story of the Week (September 11), by Nadia Kabir Barb.
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Safe Travels to Unhappy Places
“When it got unbearable I went to the mountains to look for drama.” Story of the Week (September 4), by Zain Saeed.
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Lint
“I liked the kid. He made me nervy, but I liked him. If he hadn’t come along, I wouldn’t have made it. I wouldn’t have even made it halfway backwards if I had it in me to try.” Story of the Week (August 28), by N.V. Baker.
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The Stories I Am Always Writing
“In this story I will write about a character who will walk around a tiny artificial bush of plants trying to find meaning in an argument that happened last night…” Story of the Week (August 21), by Debojit Dutta.
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A Life
“We begin with a girl and end with an old woman.” Story of the Week (August 7), by Robert Earle.
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The Swim Club
“My group was Gym ‘n’ Swim, a coed skills development group emphasizing stroke work, aquatic first aid and Christian standards of living.” Story of the Week (July 31), by David Hauptschein.
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Dorje Phagmo
“I was still almost a child, fourteen years old, when the Red Guards came to Tibet in 1961.” Story of the Week (July 24), by June Calender.
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Battle of the Brothers
“How the sky matured like plums, how silence lay between them like a bed…” Story of the Week (July 17), by Rushda Rafeek.
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