Development short stories: a homesick backpacker | James Georgalakis

As part of its 50th anniversary celebrations, the UK’s Institute of Development Studies held a short story competition for members and research partners, to encourage fiction writing on development. We publish the three winning entries Third prize: The Tourist by James GeorgalakisHe’d been travelling for just over three months but this was his final destination before returning home. The thought made him nauseous. There was not much waiting for him there except the high expectations