Ivan

Male | 40s | 3 to 5 minutes
Starts on page 14

EXTRACT: It happens so quickly, I am not able to register, to make sense, but there are shouts and a rushing, and masked men, perhaps twenty, run into the square, they have come from one of the side streets and they have guns, grenades, they are dressed in black with the balaclavas over their faces and they are crying Death to the Enemy! but who is the enemy, there are only people screaming and stumbling and trying to escape and falling down and I look for Marta, where is she?

Lee

Female | 20s | 3 to 5 minutes
Starts on page 33

EXTRACT: He didn't say much, the neurologist. You know the way doctors are. You describe your symptoms. They nod - aha, aha - but you can't tell what they're thinking. Their faces close up, you can't read the expression in their eyes, it’s rehearsed that professional detachment, cultivated for years and years. Do they teach them that at Med. school? Is there a course in blank faces you have to pass? What happens if you fail? Six weeks ago, the left side of my lip started tingling, and then overnight, I couldn't feel it at all - completely numb.