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new stories inspired by
John Cheever Jennifer Egan Janet Frame Charlotte Gilman Graham Greene James Joyce Ian McEwan Haruki Murakami Vladimir Nabokov Sean O’Faolain J D Salinger
the crooner’s billowing dirge inspires a death no rest or relaxa- tion for an efficient traffic warden a good little girl loses her furry pink cushions while a bad boy discovers the mirror never lies an awkward outsider brings an end to the party on a darkening hill we encounter a hopeless romantic a teacher fails to illuminate his scientific topic an evening at the theatre ends in unscripted tragedy a vision of unstained beauty at the fairground leaves an indelible mark doors slam in the darkness and sandwiches are forgotten is it her clever daughter you see on the swing drowning in happiness on that intense autumn of sage and lavender and a woman sits in darkness with mouth wide open a metropoli- tan nocturne leads to a body on a mattress the disappearance of wild geese brings a discomfiting epiphany spiders and rosebushes and rotten fruit public transport provides the collector with his heart’s desire
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