Ani Kayode Somtochukwu Wins the 2024 Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction.

TRAVELOGUE - GATWICK, OXFORD, AND THIS SOLAR SYSTEM OF DREAM-GAPS.I slid into my tracksuit and made for Peterborough train station; walked past blokes auctioned to dereliction by insidious frivolities as they loitered the streets and scrambled to share drinks in the middle of the road. My ears caught the husky yelp of a young boy reprimanding his friend for drinking to a stupor at an event and carving out instructions to help him maintain decorum at subsequent events. The boy, embroiled in sobriety, kept prancing and cussing out about being treated like he was a child; walking towards the Orange…