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#FlashFriday, Covid-19 Blog, Editor's Pick
Love in the Time of Corona
A brittle love story in the time of corona
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Arts & Culture, Column, Covid-19 Blog, Editor's Pick, The Litro Blog
The Joy of Reading
The pandemic has fundamentally reconfigured the shape of our lives – both public and personal. Masks in place, we navigate the pandemic-hit world tentatively, alternating between panic and hope, despair ...
A Health and Wellness Movement Rooted in Nature: Unlocking the Power of Plants
Today, healthcare, and the ability to improve our own well-being, is better than ever.
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Mimicha
A young Moroccan woman corresponds with her mother during lockdown.
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Arts & Culture, Covid-19 Blog, The Litro Blog
Eclipsed
An essay that relies on William Golding’s premise regarding human selfishness, as evidenced in his dystopian novel, Lord of the Flies, as a departure point from which to consider humanity’s ...
Arts & Culture, Covid-19 Blog, The Litro Blog
The Nastiest Thing
On a Sunday, I sent an 800-word excerpt to my virtual writing group. The piece was about my partner, Erica – a love letter to her, really, about the ways ...
Arts & Culture, Covid-19 Blog, Editor's Pick
Death Letters 2020
I hope this letter gets to you. I’m going to burn it in hopes that it does.
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Covid-19 Blog, Editor's Pick, The Litro Blog
Where Have You Gone, Dr. Pierce?
“…I called again and was rerouted five times until I was back to the same operator who initially took the call. In New Jersey, where I grew up, we call ...
Covid-19 Blog, Editor's Pick, The Litro Blog
An Acute Exacerbation
You’ve bought masks, hand sanitizer. Leave the house only for essentials, they say. Flatten the curve. You should buy an oxygen monitor, you think. Your mother had one.
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Covid Days, Chocolate Nights
The streets are very quiet these days so the whoop whoop staccato punctuation of ambulance sirens every 5 to 10 minutes is rattling.
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Covid-19 Blog, Editor's Pick, The Litro Blog
The Appearance of Blood
The unimagined victims of Covid-19.
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Coronavirus Lament
Here’s What I miss: Crowds. Big ones… everyone’s sweet with sweat and booze, one mass of hoots and hollers, and you’re reminded of what it’s like to be part of ...
Arts & Culture, Covid-19 Blog, Editor's Pick, The Litro Blog
Chekhov Bets You’re Bored, and That’s OK
“Do absolutely nothing” or “be bored” haven’t made the holy list of suitable responses to the stay-at-home orders.
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Arts & Culture, Covid-19 Blog, The Litro Blog
Traveling Amidst the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Journal Entry from March 19
For the last two days prior to the start of spring break, my mom and I frantically worked to cancel our flights, hotels, and Airbnbs in Italy and throw together ...
Bonne Chance!
An inconclusive and futile experience trying to get treatment for covid-19.
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Mississippi is a Sinking Ship
I am not afraid to die of COVID-19. (Maybe a little afraid.) Here is what I am afraid of: being separated from my partner. I am afraid to die and ...
What If I Die: The Impact of COVID-19 on My Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
I spent the better part of my night bent over the sick, scrubbing my hands and face raw with the Dial soap by the sink. My mind was occupied with ...
Covid-19 Blog, Editor's Pick, The Litro Blog
Essential
The experiences working as a manager in a restaurant during the COVID-19 Crisis.
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Covid-19 Blog, Editor's Pick, The Litro Blog
The Dawn of a Presidential Pandemic
He knew his wife Melanin was still asleep in another room in another wing on the opposite side because visionary that she is, she’d been practicing social distancing with him ...
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Calling All Performance writers and artists!
Social distancing, self-isolation, lockdown – are words we now use every day. We want to hear your stories about isolation. It might be self-imposed, it might be enforced, maybe it’s ...