Xcites

Celebrating the explosion of French culture of recent times, XCITes captures the storms of passion and literary creativity of today's young writers from France, gathering together in English for the first time their distinctive and diverse voices of resistance, rebellion and change, to inflame and to inspire.
a man lays down his prayer-mat in the middle of a Parisian ring-road in the rush-hour, looks east to Mecca and is carted off in a straitjacket ...
two feisty girls after up to a bovine, sweaty stranger his fantasy, only to fulfil theirs ...
a trashed, thirtysomething poser unwittingly saves the life of the star DJ's ex at the opening of a chic Parisian club ...
a bored office-worker sees the world in a new light when his fingers are clamped around the gun in his pocket ...
in an arid African town, an old man chews khat all afternoon, while madmen prowl the streets foretelling the future ...