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The Bone Room
Daniel was the first of us to spend the night alone in there.” Today’s unsettling #TuesdayTale is Nicola Varley’s “The Bone Room”.
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A Field Guide to Birds in Other Forms
You will notice the ruffle of feathers wherever you wander”. Today’s #StorySunday by Sally Gander is “A Field Guide to Birds in Other Forms”.
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Kinky Christmas Runner-up: Little Christmas
When wisecracking mini-Jesus turns up in a Mason jar, and holds his own.
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#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction
One Another’s Ghost
After Attracta died she never gave it back.
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
The Sixties Itch
I’ve been out of The Scrubs for a few days and I want to burrow like a mole.
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Kinky Christmas First Prize: Variant Mass
Inspired by the author’s old hairdresser who was unable to return to Poland each Christmastime.
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23,195 New Yorkers and Counting | Litro Lab Podcast
How have your landscapes and relationships with neighbours changed over the past two years? Terena Elizabeth Bell reflects on Covid-19, loss, disconnection and reconnection, in this thoughtful and sharply observed ...
#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction
The Better for a Sleep
I had spent two decades in desserts.
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Pieces of Alisha
I knew something important was happening because a taxi pulled up and Mum told me to come downstairs.” In today’s #StorySunday, a young woman navigates her life on a council ...
The Life of the Party
What happens when a party goes wrong?
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#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction
Imaginary Houses
Music is a strange and sad language, she was thinking as the bus hissed to attention at her stop.
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Back to Descartes
She worries. God knows why.
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The More You Buy the More You Save
Oh, reticent consumer, presumer of endless parades of dead-soul days. Crash the doors, explore the twin shelves
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#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction
Ben X
If I could be somewhere else – where?
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Carpet Vandal
It makes him feel the same as on the day it happened, but he never cries.
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Ruby
I see in each ruby a trapped woman in the confines of her man’s world.
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#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction
Discover The Magic
She was still pretending to sleep when the driver turned off the road.
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Shoogly
I waited at the top of his street. Two young boys were racing in go-karts. Every time they zoomed past the bottom lamppost, they hopped out and started up the ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
Stripped to the Bone
With fork and knife, thus armed he watched as she began to peel back the skin of the plaice with a delicate precision until its white flesh glistened, perfectly pearlescent, ...
#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction
Good People
The first thing the new neighbours do is erect a tall fence round their garden
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