Smile Mannequin, Smile
by Courttia Newland
Courttia Newland was born in 1973 in west London. He is the author of four novels, has co-edited three anthologies (including IC3: The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain) and is a co-founder of the Tell Tales collective, a short story initiative. He was Chair of the judges for the 2005John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (awarded in 2006).
The 12 stories in Music for the Off-Key delight in the dark, the grotesque and the uncanny.
'Smile Mannequin, Smile' is reproduced by kind permission of the author and Peepal Tree Press.
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