Date: 1992
"Patrick sprang up the steps of the Key Club with unaccustomed eagerness, his nerves squirming like a bed of maggots whose protective stone has been flicked aside, exposing them to the assault of the open sky."
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
Date: 2000
"Reactions react to reactions like worms impaling themselves more deeply on the hooks they try to escape."
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
Date: 2000
"As I breathed in I could feel my consciousness expanding along a glistening spider's web of total connectedness and as I exhaled it accordioned back into the tropical richness of my body, the streams and rivers of my blood."
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
Date: 2005
"It was as though my memories were pigeons and the accident a big noise that had scared them off."
preview | full record— McCarthy, Tom (b. 1969)
Date: 2009
"His mind snagged on the word like a fish on a hook."
preview | full record— Nicholls, David (b. 1966)