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THE OLD OAK GROVE STANDS AS IT EVER DID
After a funeral, dark family secrets erupt into violence.
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Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Essay
Sweatpants Won’t Set Us Free: Who Gets To Dress Down In A Post-Covid World?
As our year of lockdown living draws to an end, there is a groundswell of opinion that terry towel trousers might stick around post-pandemic, becoming as acceptable to wear on ...
Material for a Story
Christina’s dull office job finally provides her with a shocking storyline for her creative endeavours.
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BENNO, TRIPPI & BENNO
When a ventriloquist’s puppet disappears, who will take his place?
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#EssaySaturday, Arts & Culture, Covid-19 Blog, Editor's Pick, Essay
How fantasy literature and media can benefit our mental health
What if fantasy literature and media can be beneficial for our mental health, alongside being a huge amount of fun?
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Book Review: Astral Travel by Elizabeth Baines
There comes a point in your grown-up life when you realise that your parents are just people, human beings like anybody else.
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Iceland Poppies | Litro Lab Podcast
Vanessa Bell,Virginia Woolf’s sister, gets a voice of her own to muse on flowers, loss, and the rendering of life on a canvas.
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Arts & Culture, Covid-19 Blog, Editor's Pick, Essay
A Worldly Chronology of the Naked Nationalism of the Shambolic Vaccine
A global account of the vaccine rollout and mishaps so far.
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Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Travel&Lifestyle
BOOK REVIEW: Natsume Sōseki’s “I am a Cat”
Written in 1905, Sōseki’s work is narrated by an anonymous moggy who spends his days observing the comings-and-goings in the household of his master….
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THE DAFFAN DANCE HALL FIRE
A steamy dance hall gets even hotter when a mysterious blaze breaks out.
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#EssaySaturday, Arts & Culture, Covid-19 Blog, Editor's Pick
The Healthy Desire For Discomfort
I dream of discomfort. For a year now I have lived a hazy half-life of wool and fleece and sweatpants.
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, podcast
AN ILL WIND AND NORĐRLJOS | LITRO LAB PODCAST
This week on Litro Lab podcast, we have a disturbing piece of flash fiction with dystopian hints.
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Siren
Siren speaks of desire, through the guise of breaking and entering.
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WE DON’T BRUNCH ANYMORE
Romantic feelings and scamming on the brunch bill put a group of friends under strain.
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Electricity
In a sensory-heightened state, a young man fights through darkness
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Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Literature
BOOK REVIEW: Vahni Capildeo’s “Skin Can Hold”
Vahni Capildeo’s Skin Can Hold bursts with ideas, electric with the joy of words. Capildeo is a writer enamoured with language, and her book offers up sextina, rondeau, motet, dialogue, ...
The Conspirators
A country descends into civil war and dangerous choices must be made.
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Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Literature, Travel&Lifestyle
Book Review: Breasts and Eggs by Meiko Kawakami
Although a translation of her short novel Ms Ice Sandwich was brought out by Pushkin Press in 2017, Breasts and Eggs is the first full-length fiction by Mieko Kawakami to ...
A CROOKED MAN’S KNEE
A crooked man comes visiting.
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Editor's Pick, podcast, Poetry
Product Placement (While You Dream) | Litro Lab Podcast
This week on Litro Lab podcast, we bring an experimental piece that mixes poetry and music. In the era of streaming platforms, many of us rarely watch TV advertising. Yet, ...