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11 December 2019

There’s No Ifs or Maybes, I’ll Never Have Babies

A new short story by the winner of the Goldsmiths Prize.

By Lucy Ellmann

It was Christmas, and the bells were clanging all around her in her summer house.

Ca-lang
Ptang
Ping
Ptam-blam
Tlam
La-too
Pla-bah
Pela-pta
Bim bam
Glim glam
Dlam
Dlam-tam

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