The Reader Berlin brings you ten award-winning contemporary short stories in this anthology of fresh and original writing. Compiled from the winners of 2014's Reader Berlin short story competition, these tales – selected by judges Laura Hassan (Guardian Faber), Brittani Sonnenberg (author of HOME LEAVE, Grand Central Publishing) and Florian Duijsens (Editor at SAND and Asymptote) – showcase the distinctive voices of ten emerging talents. United only by the city that inspired them, and ranging from the historical to the dystopian, the observational to the futuristic, they bear witness to one of the world's greatest most mutable cities: Berlin. Authors: Will Bentley Emily Cataneo James Carson Jessie Keyt Julia Lackermayer Alice Miller Lizzie Roberts Abby Sinnott Will Studdert Simon Ward
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The Reader Berlin. Streets of Berlin
STREETS OF BERLIN: AN ANTHOLOGY
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
EDITOR’S NOTE
A WORD FROM OUR JUDGES
Horst-Wessel-Stadt. Will Studdert
The Ambit. Will Bentley
A Monkey on a Horse. James Carson
Blood Red Oxfords, Size 39. Emily Cataneo
Hunger. Jessie Keyt
One Thousand Nine Hundred Nineteen. Julia Lackermayer
The Jars. Alice Miller
Junk for Suckers. Lizzie Roberts
Eclipse. Abby Sinnott
Gegen Entgegen. Simon Ward
CONTRIBUTORS
EDITOR & JUDGES
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Down below on the invisible quayside, a drunk was intoning something that sounded a bit like Ave Maria but was not. I shuddered & regretted accepting the cigarette. There to the right of the river behind the smokestacks were my lodgings & tho I still had to retrieve coal on this coldest night of the year, I looked forward greatly to my rickety camp bed which groans in the night & my book & a sleep-inducing libation of sorts & tomorrow I shall wake fresh to hack out the next script on my trusty Imperial. But still bloody Jenkins loitered in the Here & Now, wanting to talk & yet not to talk.
- You think the RAF will make it over here one day, bomb us to smithereens?
