Commonwealth Stories: Indecent Exposure

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and mark this year's Commonwealth Games celebrations, three recent prize-winners have written specially commissioned stories. Today's tale is Indecent Exposure, a quietly searing tale of motherhood, poverty and longing by Kanya D'Almeida, from Sri Lanka. A young woman finds herself in court and knows that the forces ranged against her will never understand or pardon the desperate need that brought her there