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and now resides in Nîmes. He shares with us a
new, unpublished story here -- about an art school
graduate from Lincolnshire called Suzie, on a train.
How very European.
Jo Mazelis
hails from Swansea, in Wales – and
often deals with European themes and settings in
her stories.
Award-winning UK novelist and story writer
Jay Merill
gives us a chilling tale of Damien, a
misanthropic character inspired by Molière,
who becomes homeless. Although the writing is
contemporary, there is a picaresque feel, and a
suggestion of Mozart’s ‘Cosi fan tutte’.
These so-called British authors are right at home
in this issue with some terrific writing from
elsewhere in Europe.
Margarida Vale de Gato
is
one of Portugal’s strongest contemporary poetic