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FICTION: Can You Eat the Wind? by Sian Hughes

‘You haven’t lost the pregnancy,’ says the sonographer. ‘But I can’t find a heartbeat.’ The sonographer’s sentences don’t belong together. Amy notices that she has a tan face and a white neck, like parts from different bodies. ‘Can I see?’ she says. The sonographer points at the screen. In a corner of Amy’s womb, floating

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FICTION: Shaving for Dog by Sian Hughes

The ensuite bathroom of the Hotel Via della Purificazione is as pale and clean as an egg. Seventeen-year-old Meinir Roberts downs a glass of white wine from the mini-bar and climbs into a freshly run bath, balancing a can of shaving gel, a Bic razor with strip of protective aloe vera, and a bar of

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