The Manchester Anthology 2013

In London, a carer kneels beside her charge's rioting body. A tutor imagines his mistake in caps-lock headlines, and the witch-hunter's sister returns to Manningtree. In Nigeria, a boy looks for pockets to pick, while in Manchester, an ambulance could be an ice-cream van. A princess becomes queen, her crown a wreath of glutted mosquitoes; cherry blossoms fall over the bloodied body of a teenage grl and Mary finds a sheep's skull in the cabinet, a second-best cap. And in a dank bedsit in Dublin, a woman tastes garlic and absinthe on the lips of a chance lover. New voices bolster the University of Manchester's reputation for new writing in this diverse and enjoyable collection of stories, poems, and novel extracts.