Black Bread White Beer

A new novel from Niven Govinden (Friday Project, UK / Fourth Estate, India). Longlisted for the 2013 DSC Prize.

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No longer counting. Longing for a smaller person to present a lighted cake to.

• 27 December 2012

Before marriage.

• 24 December 2012

Parties that were now loathed.

• 23 December 2012

“I know how furiously your heart is beating.”

— Wallace Stevens

• 21 December 2012

Unable to see what sparkled in the everyday; what could be cherished.

• 20 December 2012

“I am made by her, and undone.”

— Thom Gunn

• 19 December 2012

Played when she wasn’t around.

• 18 December 2012

Thought about but never acted upon. (Edward Kay)

• 17 December 2012 • 1 note

Needing to travel to feel a sense of this.

• 14 December 2012 • 1 note

Cold to each other. At times she looked at him and felt nothing.

• 13 December 2012 • 329 notes