The Drawbridge, Horror Issue

Issue 13, Summer 2009: Horror. "We ask the angels to hold us steady while we behead our fathers, flatten our people, sell our daughters and hang ourselves. And yet every now and then you pluck a daisy, and it breaks your heart".

In this issue

* Shalom Auslander, Someone stop this galloping hope
* Paul Burke, Memorial
* Lawrence Carroll, Sleepless nights
* Horacio Castellanos Moya, Senselessness
* Jenny Diski, Dear little bird, do die now
* Jeff Fisher, Ex. 251a
* Rubem Fonseca, The game of dead men
* Disa Ingegerd Holgersson, Untitled
* Jaki Jo, Untitled
* Etgar Keret, Indigestion at heaven's gates
* Saadat Hasan Manto, Her body beyond pain
* Sophia Martineck, Horrorhouse
* Jason Orton, Glove, rug, bones, Dartford Marshes
* Justin Partyka, Piapot Reserve, Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan
* Tracy Quan, What's it all about, Daisy?
* Vincenzo Ruggiero, A Gorgon's head sprouting the loose limbs of civilians
* Albert Sánchez Piñol, Human steamrollers
* José Saramago, The leper on my chamber pot
* Samanta Schweblin, Killing a dog
* David Shrigley, Untitled
* Sasa Stanisic, My yellow tastes sweet
* Chris Steele-Perkins, Comfort women
* Mario Vargas Llosa, Her young, dark breath full of life
* Paul Verhaeghen, Equipped with easel, flute and precision gun
* Dan Williams, Portraits
* Tomoko Yoneda, Minefield – view of a mined football pitch, Sarajevo
* Philip Alcabes
* David Axelbank
* Jocelyn Bain Hogg
* Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin
* Paul Davis
* Ben Jones
* Toby Glanville
* Leila Guerriero
* Sunny Singh
* Craig Taylor

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