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January / Top tens
A Pox on this Plague!
by Christopher Wilson
It’s in the Season of the Plague. The Black Death is scorching its path through England, leaving half the population dead in its wake. Folk suppose it’s a lethal miasma of foul airs. Or maybe it’s God’s punishment for human corruption. Or perhaps vagrants and money-lenders have been poisoning the wells. Medicine doesn’t help
January / Top tens
Fiction at work
by Rebecca Watson
‘Workplace’ is a vague, literal term. It’s too broad to conjure an image, though it might summon a feeling. (For some: not here again, for others: here we go!). Nowadays my workplace is also my dinner table, the place where I wrapped Christmas presents I’m yet to give. But old, paused office life was fertile,
Interviews / January / On film
Gints Zilbalodis: Doing it all
by Mark Reynolds
Latvian prodigy Gints Zilbalodis’ critically acclaimed debut animated feature Away is a stunning, dialogue-free film about a boy travelling across an island on a motorcycle, trying to escape a dark spirit and return home. Along the way, he makes a series of connections with different animals and reflects on how he may have ended up
Interviews / January
Bryan Washington: Neighbourhoods
by Mark Reynolds
Bryan Washington’s debut story colle
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I was coming down the hill and I saw them, how close they were around me. At first, not seeing them, for there were only trees and leaves and paths of shadow, but then making out from amongst the darkening branches small delicate shapes that were moving in between the thickets of elm and oak and ash, taking form and particularity that was animal.
I look back now, on that moment, of something becoming apparent to me in the gathering darkness and it doesn’t seem to be evening at all but rather a time of growing light. As though, as the colour left the summer sky and as I criss-crossed my way down the hill, lost and confused and unable, I thought, to find my way out of the wood, I was actually coming into some kind of illumination, an understanding. I see I remember thinking quite clearly as the foxes darted before me on the path and then came to stand, like ghosts or children all around me: I see.
For sure it was that time of day when anything could happen.
I’d been up in the park at the top of the hill, the one with the high black and gold railings around it and two ornate gates through which you enter and leave. The grass there is kept clipped close as a carpet, and in the middle of the green is set the beautiful gold bandstand like a crown. We’d been
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