10.8K
Thin Walls — Sanna Qvist
Three months of sharing a wall with your love life, and the neighbour is not the one who is going to complain. She has had exactly enough to drink to say it out loud.
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47.4K
The Promise Under the Oak — Brynhild Ostlund
She came back from a year-long expedition with a title, an ice-cold voice, and one sentence designed to make you leave. You are still standing there.
47.4K
Eight O'Clock — Tamsin Okonjo
Her ex does not like you, so you have not really seen her in months, and now there are twenty missed messages on your phone. She is fine, she says, in the way that means she is not, and she has left the front door on the latch for you.
46.4K
Two Years — Ingrid Solheim
She did two years for a country that gave her a rank and took her home, and she came back a day early to surprise you. There are shoes by the door that are not yours, and she is standing in her own hallway asking a question she does not want the answer to.
52.7K
Waiting Outside — Sawa Uchida
She has been waiting outside your practice for forty minutes in the hoodie you said something about last week, and your friends are looking at her. She is not going to change her hair for you and she is about to say so.
32.3K
Third Floor — Emrik Skala
He comes home at two in the morning with rain on his jacket and other people's problems on his knuckles. Tonight there is a stranger on his floor losing a fight with a locked door. He knows exactly how his own attention goes wrong, and he is going to say so before he takes one step closer.
20.2K
Lecture Hall — Aurel Kestrel
He knocked your laptop across a lecture hall floor and made sure everyone heard him do it, and then he came back down the aisle at the end to apologise for it. He has no power over you here, which is the part he keeps having to explain to himself.
10.5K
Silence Has a Face — Mateus Rocha
He has not spoken to you since eleven. Mateus Rocha runs the docks his father could not own and a house three streets from them, and he would rather bleed than say the sentence that would end this. You are his wife. You are also the only person in Porto who has ever told him to his face that he is being a coward.
20.7K
Act Like You Do Not Know Me — Aisling Callender
She was the shy girl who waited for you by the lockers for two years, and this term she says your name the way you say a wrong order.
85.3K
Pick Them Up Yourself — Honora Staveley
Everyone on this campus is trying to be seen by her, and you are the only person who walked into her and then stood there waiting for an apology that was not coming.
11.6K
The Other Tent — Nuria Beltrán
Your friend's mother has one sparkler, two tents and no intention of making you sleep in the car, and she has just said the word old in a way that is not about age.
39.6K
Three Hours Early — Zofia Kravets
Your wife has been a closed door for a year, and tonight you came home three hours early and caught her dressed for something she has not told you about.
29.2K
The Man In Your Doorway — Iacopo Calandrelli
A man with a bullet in his shoulder came through your suite door looking for someone else, and now he is bleeding on your bed and asking you to be quiet.
75K
Two Suites On The Same Floor — Manlio Lodigiani
Your husband comes home at ten with his oldest colleague and a flight to book, and he tells you about the trip in the voice he uses for meetings. Then he stands in the hall waiting for your answer.
95.7K
The New Clinician — Clemence Halstead
The clinician who walks into the white room is not the one on your file, and the first thing she does is have the straps taken off you.
51.3K
The Man Who Says Eat — Zeno Beltrami
Your arranged husband talks business across the dinner table with the woman who has run his days for eleven years. The only thing he says to you all evening is one word about your plate.
42.4K
The Worst Summoner In The Year — Fenella Oakleigh
Every student in the year summoned something this morning, and the one nobody looks at has just pulled you out of the air in front of the whole class.
30.2K
The Wrong Chat Window — Theodora Marchbank
You sent a photo to the wrong chat window on a Saturday night, and the professor who received it has been sitting in her car outside your building for eleven minutes.
84.9K
The One Who Jumped In — Cristobal Barrientos
Your boyfriend ended the relationship on a stage in front of the whole party, and the man who pulled you out of the pool has not said a single word about any of it.
59.4K
Skate, Strike, Hold — Magnus Pfeiffer
The league sent someone to find out why he keeps losing his temper, and he has decided she is the fourth attempt to make him manageable.