This week, we're reading "Ophelia" by Breanne McIvor. It was published in April 2017 on Adda,  the online literary magazine of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Ophelia is a story about a young man who falls for a woman in the cast of a play he is in. As he prepares for a coffee with her - which could be their first date - he realises the distance between them, and decides he can’t go through with it. This is a story about class, about race, and how to navigate who you are.

Link to story: https://www.addastories.org/ophelia/

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