Fiction

This was not the first time she’d stood in front of the shop window gazing at the dress. What made…

فكرة القصة مستوحاة من لوحة "القارءة" للفنان الألماني جيرهارد ريختر انتقلت إلى العاصمة الألمانية برلين، بعد انتظارٍ دام ستة أشهر…

After waiting six months in Bremen in northwest Germany for a temporary residency permit, I moved to Berlin. I was…

Ramchand’s death, in Connecticut in his late sixties, was unexpected. He was a diabetic, but one who watched what he…

The 'mission', as he called it over his second pint, huddled in a corner of the Galway Arms, was to…

It wasn’t until I was fourteen that I understood my mother was an invalid. I already knew she was an…

There are two ways to enter Ajegunle: from the front, past the noisy market and the frenetic traffic facing the…

Lilly caused a stir when she started working as a night-time delivery rider at the 24-hour McDonald’s at Woodlands. It…

‘I don’t see why you have to go.’ Natalie was undressing, her back turned to him, her arm reaching behind…

A few lifetimes ago, I climbed up Dad's attic to help him wire a not-quite-lawful electrical project. He needed a…

When I came home there were strange people in my house, and they gathered tight at the front door to…

I am reading a book about circus life. The author is a Japanese man who fell in love with a…

A story circulated among the Nigerian community in Dakar. Somewhere in the city, a long-forgotten pimp returned alive. No one…

'Cow and Company' won the overall 2016 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and the regional prize for Asia.   ‘Where is the…

'The Human Phonograph' won the overall 2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and the regional prize for Europe.   And as…

'Let’s Tell This Story Properly' won the overall 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and the regional prize for Africa.   If…