For this month, I chose (kind of) at random stories from Granta (I ended up needing to purchase a subscription to finish reading Month Three, so thought I’d use them again), the literary quarterly from Cambridge University. I say ‘kind of’ because I scrolled through their list and chose any story that I came across – but skipped over the excerpts because I wanted stand-alone stories. As with the previous ten months, I have no idea what these stories are about – the goal is simply to experience new writing. Feel free to read along!
- “Abandonment” by Ralf Webb
- “Dogs of Summer” by Andrea Abreu (Translated by Julia Sanches)
- “Bridge Over the Yallahs River” by Diana McCaulay
- “Scream Queen” by Julia Armfield
- “Welcome to the New World” by Jessi Jezewska Stevens
- “The Nightwatch” by Mary Rokonadravu
- “We Had to Remove This Post” by Hanna Bervoets (Translated by Emma Rault)
- “Acts of Service” by Lillian Fishman
- “Ghosts” by Adam Foulds
- “National Dress” by Rebecca Sollom
- “An English Opening” by Maxim Osipov (Translated by Alex Fleming)
- “Staying In” by Lieke Marsman (Translated by Sophie Collins)
- “The Rub” by William Hawkins
- “The Kingdom of Sand” by Andrew Holleran
- “How It Works” by David Hayden
- “Borromean Rings” by Andrea Chapela (Translated by Kelsi Vanada)
- “Two Nameless Women” by Cristina Rivera Garza (Translated by Sarah Booker)
- “Small Girl Laundry” by Adachioma Ezeano
- “Signal” by Zakia Uddin
- “A Stiff Flame From the Neck” by Kathryn Scanlan
- “Oldladyvoice” by Elisa Victoria (Translated by Charlotte Whittle)
- “Just the Plague” by Ludmila Ulitskaya (Translated by Polly Gannon)
- “A Place I’d Go To” by Kathryn Scanlan
- “One Muggy Spring, Thanks, Dot and Secretly Try” by Diane Williams
- “Ruins in Reverse” by Carlos Fonseca (Translated by Megan McDowell)
- “Unbury Our Dead with Song” by Mũkoma Wa Ngũgĩ
- “Travellers Inside the Marquee” by Eudris Planche Savón (Translated by Margaret Jull Costa)
- “Uninhabitants” by Gonzalo Baz (Translated by Christina MacSweeney)
- “Capsule” by Mateo García Elizondo (Translated by Robin Myers)
- “Kingdoms” by Miluska Benavides (Translated by Katherine Silver)
Ami Maxine 