In her present life, she had about five friends. Since she frequented nowhere, she wouldn’t necessarily have met them. They were all from past lives, and she wasn’t sure why they’d remained. Like limescale build-up in the bend of a pipe, thickening with time and the water flow. Impossible to ignore after a while. One […]
Lauren Harper
LAUREN HARPER is an Aberdeenshire-born translator and editor. After graduating with an MSc in Translation Studies from the University of Edinburgh in 2020, she spent two and a half years as a freelance translator (Chinese/French to English) before moving to London for an in-house role. Her English translation of Chang Yu-Ko’s short story 七月流火 (The Fire Star Passes the Meridian) was published by Samovar in 2022.

