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    EDITOR’S LETTER: FRIENDSHIP ISSUE

    EDITOR’S LETTER: FRIENDSHIP ISSUE

    On friendship ...
    by Eric Akoto | 7th July 20217th July 2021
  • Editor's Pick, Essay, Print Issues, Spring 2021: Japan Edition

    THE EXTRAORDINARY, ORDINARY LIFE OF NAKAHARA TOSHIKO

    THE EXTRAORDINARY, ORDINARY LIFE OF NAKAHARA TOSHIKO

    Thomas Lockley celebrates the extraordinary, ordinary life of a strong woman. ...
    by thomaslockley | 21st June 202121st June 2021
  • Editor's Pick, Essay, Poetry, Print Issues, Spring 2021: Japan Edition

    A HISTORY OF AFRICAN HAIKU

    A HISTORY OF AFRICAN HAIKU

    Adjei Agyei-BAAh discusses how haiku is taking root in Africa. ...
    by adjeiagyeibaah | 16th June 202116th June 2021
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    EDITORS’ LETTERS: SPRING 2021 JAPAN ISSUE

    EDITORS’ LETTERS: SPRING 2021 JAPAN ISSUE

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    by Eric Akoto | 7th June 20217th June 2021
  • Litro Desire Issue, Print Issues

    Fresh Sheets and 5 other short shorts

    Fresh Sheets and 5 other short shorts

    But now, I not only wanted to break my pencil and throw out what I’d written, I was dying to take him to bed. ...
    by Lawrence Schimel | 10th July 201911th July 2019
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    Into the Pleroma

    Into the Pleroma

    As the effects get stranger—rust-red mold on the pavements like a carpet, sweat permanently congealed on my skin, finding that a street ends in a ...
    by Ingrid Norton | 10th July 201911th July 2019
  • Litro Desire Issue, Print Issues

    Court

    Court

    D’Ora with her coffee tries to focus and listen and care, but in a quick minute her mind goes to Phil. It’s been ...
    by Laila Halaby | 8th July 201919th January 2022
  • Litro Desire Issue, Print Issues

    Complicated Blues

    Complicated Blues

    The way she smiled at him nearly made me jealous. Even though I didn’t know who she was, yet I was beginning to feel jealous. ...
    by achicabonita | 8th July 20198th July 2019
  • Editor's Pick, Fiction, Litro Desire Issue, Print Issues

    A Good Mask

    A Good Mask

    Name, shame, secrete, wash, wipe clean, wring dry, sanitize. What I can’t expunge, I conceal. I blur and disguise. ...
    by Nadia Owusu | 5th July 201911th July 2019
  • Letters from the Editor, Litro Desire Issue, Print Issues

    Litro Desire: Editor’s Letter

    Litro Desire: Editor’s Letter

    There’s a sense of release about writing this Editor’s Letter because it means the final piece of the jigsaw puzzle is now in place. It ...
    by Eric Akoto | 27th June 201915th July 2019
  • Litro Desire Issue, Print Issues

    Introduction

    Introduction

    Desire is complicated in that as much as it burns inside of you and demands an outlet as is it born of heart, of love, ...
    by Ira Silverberg | 25th June 201911th July 2019
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    Unmastered Desires by Frederick McKindra

    Unmastered Desires by Frederick McKindra

    . I didn’t want to be a victim to my desire, to the legacies of white supremacy and internalized homophobia. I didn’t want to be ...
    by Frederick McKindra | 12th June 201926th October 2020
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    The Little Mermaid by Leah Dworkin

    The Little Mermaid by Leah Dworkin

    We all know how she got here. Want. Desire. All the poor little mermaid’s ever wanted is legs, to split open like a lazy mollusk ...
    by Leah Dworkin | 4th June 201926th October 2020
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    Homebound by Hannah Seidlitz

    Homebound by Hannah Seidlitz

    The two men who approached us in Grand Central must have smelled it on us––the tension of coming apart. ...
    by Hannah Seidlitz | 29th May 201926th October 2020
  • Digital Subscription, Editor's Pick, Litro #172: Addiction, Print Issues

    The Body is a Battlefield

    The Body is a Battlefield

    by Jenny Valentish | 15th May 201915th May 2019
  • Digital Subscription, Litro #173: Comedy, Print Issues

    I Screamed “Every White Man Should be Considered a Rapist Until Proven Innocent” at a Halloween Party and Got Kicked Out

    I Screamed “Every White Man Should be Considered a Rapist Until Proven Innocent” at a Halloween Party and Got Kicked Out

    by Mattison Merritt | 3rd May 20194th May 2019
  • Litro #174: Freedom, Print Issues

    Litro #174: Editor’s Letter

    Litro #174: Editor’s Letter

    This edition of Litro Magazine is all about freedom – something worth celebrating while we still have it, if we ever really did, and worth fighting for, ...
    by Eric Akoto | 3rd May 20194th May 2019
  • Editor's Pick, Litro #174: Freedom, Print Issues

    Outside the Wind Window

    Outside the Wind Window

    Art always wakes up before dawn on festival day. Has done for seventeen years and this year is no different. ...
    by Elle Everhart | 20th March 201926th March 2019
  • Editor's Pick, Litro #174: Freedom, Print Issues

    All the Freedom Privilege Allows

    All the Freedom Privilege Allows

    “I’m tired of talking about race,” a white male friend said to me. “We’re all equal, we all get the same opportunities; we all got ...
    by Lorraine Devon Wilke | 19th March 201926th March 2019
  • Editor's Pick, Litro #174: Freedom, Print Issues

    The Death of Donald Trump

    The Death of Donald Trump

    November 5th, 2020, eleven weeks before the end of his term, of a bullet wound to the head fired as he addressed a crowd of ...
    by Evan Guilford-Blake | 19th March 201926th March 2019

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