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Somewhere over the Eversea, on a stormship with no maid aboard, a young empress realises she cannot get out of her own dress. The row of buttons down her spine defeats her, and the only person on the ship she can ask is the husband who has barely spoken to her in days. He undoes […]

The welcome mat is the first thing Molly Graham recognises. She bought it at a craft fair before college, with cat silhouettes running along its border, and dragged it from dorm to dorm, and now it lies outside an apartment she has no memory of renting. Inside, the living room is jammed with antiques: two […]

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Early in In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck, a woman in a migrant camp goes into labour and there is no doctor. Mac, who has arrived that afternoon and knows nothing about childbirth, announces that he has medical training and delivers the baby by nerve and hot water. It goes well. Afterwards he explains to […]

Eda Shaw is inching along a wooden beam above a full playhouse, knees shaking, trying not to think about what happens to the people below if she falls. She is following a small black mouse. When she reaches the gallery roof the mouse has become a man, and he has secured them the best seats […]

Halfway through Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck, a man called Hazel, who is kind and not clever, sits in the Monterey jail beside a vagrant fortune teller and asks what he insists is only a hypothetical question. Suppose a man is in trouble. Suppose there is one way out and he cannot take it himself. […]