Claire Armitstead‘Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom’The train was still hurtling through the black tunnel when the squabble started on the seat in front of them. “Here, here, that’s enough,” said the woman beside Mary, leaning forward over the back of the seat. “I think I will get a cup of coffee in the dining car,” the woman was saying to Mary, then. “You seem to know a lot about this trip,” Mary said to the woman. Give me a little longer.”• ‘Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom’ by Sylvia Plath, from the Faber Stories series, is published by Faber.

Source: The Guardian December 29, 2018 03:00 UTC