New Voices Rise vol II

Page 154

Matt Wixey Extract from King of Fleas

prologue

Dialogue is in Mandarin in this scene.

Darkness. A girl, Chinese, young, on an army cot. Beside her, on a low stool, is a Chinese soldier in military uniform.

In the far corner is an older Chinese colonel. He smokes and observes the other two calmly.

The screen flickers to life. Grainy, black-and-white, crackling with static, it begins to show subtitles.

Soldier: What else did he tell you? Girl: Everything he told us came true. He is the king. Soldier: You mean the emperor? Girl: He is the king of fleas.

Lights up.

Soldier:

The king of /

Girl:

He will find them. He will never stop looking. He will part the roots of the grass to find them.

Soldier:

Where is he now?

Girl:

He lives by a field and the grass is red.

Soldier: Grass isn’t red.

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Acknowledgements

2min
pages 180-182

Author biographies

5min
pages 175-179

Ayad Andrews Extract from Episode Four of The Fight of the Century – Ali v Frazier

3min
pages 171-174

Beth Emery Extract from The Conch Republic

3min
pages 157-159

Matt Wixey Extract from King of Fleas

2min
pages 154-156

Amy Powell Yeates You Can’t Kill the Spirit

6min
pages 147-153

Nancy Netherwood Extract from Night and Light and The Half-Light

4min
pages 143-146

Freya Mavor Extract from Something, Not Yet

5min
pages 135-142

Lily Levinson Extract from The Trial of Israel Lipski

4min
pages 130-134

Natalie Whittaker Poems from Tree

2min
pages 123-129

This

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page 122

Benjamin Cusden Note to the New Homeless

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page 119

Transcience

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page 121

Tomorrow it will be the rain

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page 120

Zakia Carpenter-Hall The Earth-Eating Fire

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pages 114-118

Natalie Rule Extract from Beep, Drip Pump, a short story

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pages 108-113

Hannah Partos Working for a Hollywood Legend

5min
pages 105-107

Anna Parker Extract from Cottage

6min
pages 101-104

Marta Bausells Holidays in Saturn

4min
pages 87-89

Sarah Clegg Virgin Ghosts and Failed Mothers

5min
pages 90-92

Aaron Kilercioglu Crab Farts

6min
pages 97-100

Marina Gerner The Three Grandes Dames of Impressionism

6min
pages 93-96

Gaar Adams Extract from Guest Privileges

5min
pages 84-86

Ana Soria Extract from Santoku

5min
pages 77-83

Charlotte Newman Extract from The Magpie’s Daughter

6min
pages 65-68

Lisa Smith Extract from The Land of Milk and Honey

6min
pages 73-76

Yosola Olorunshola Extract from work in progress

5min
pages 69-72

Shakira Moise Extract from Mami Wata

6min
pages 61-64

Lanikai Krishnadasan Torrens Extract from Sea Glass

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pages 57-60

Daniel Marc Janes Amazon Reviews of a Bucket

6min
pages 51-56

Lucian Huxley Smith Extract from Micro

7min
pages 46-50

Carole Hailey Extract from His Darling Sister

6min
pages 42-45

Naina Bajekal Extract from A Better Life

6min
pages 21-24

Charlotte Forfieh Extract from April Fools

7min
pages 33-37

Chez Cotton Extract from The Brightlands Suicide

6min
pages 29-32

Helen Bain Extract from What Elspeth Did

5min
pages 17-20

Flora Carr Greenland Shark

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pages 25-28

Russell Franklin Extract from The Broken Places

7min
pages 38-41

Krystle Zara Appiah Extract from Rootless

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pages 14-16

About The London Library

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