Original Fiction Online

The Guardian has original short fiction from seven authors and links to past fictions. The new ones include Yann Martel, Alice Munro and Jeanette Winterson. Here is a little tast from Winterson:

We were wet through before we got back to your room. You dried my hair in a towel. I put your shoes on the radiator. Simple gestures that take on meaning, and I wondered why it is only in these heightened moments that the significance of everything is clear? Is it too much to live with so much meaning? I don't watch the signs to see if they are auspicious, and I am not superstitious, but all of us could be clairvoyant if we were not so afraid of what we might see. I don't mean doom and disaster, I hardly mean anything sizable at all, only the living texture of each moment and each gesture. The feel of life under my fingers, sometimes rough, sometimes impossibly fine, and I could read it like Braille, but I don't because I daren't.

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