You can have anything you want, Honey, says Grandma, don’t mind your mother, who picks up her coffee and drinks it like she’s stopping a scream.
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In Soviet Bucharest, Christmas is a time of scarcity. The festive day is rescued by an unusual tree, and the joy of family that never recedes.
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Unveiling a mysterious boy’s chilling past, the Tilneys’ Christmas takes a haunting turn. As secrets unravel, a tragic tale connects them to a ghostly presence.
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A beautiful, gut-wrenching tale of a mother and child who celebrate Christmas, against a backdrop of family difficulties and uncertain futures.
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A beautiful, gut-wrenching tale of a mother and child who celebrate Christmas, against a backdrop of family difficulties and uncertain futures.
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Experience the cinematic magic of Christmastime. This flash fiction captures the interplay of festive pasts and presents in a timeless film reel.
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Author Robin Stevens reflects on the pressures of conforming to feminine expectations during Christmas, advocating for the timeless joy of gifting books.
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The magic of Christmas laced with the dark undercurrents of abuse and the past. ‘Nico’s Wish’ explores love, change, and resilience.
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They didn’t hate Santa, they were just frustrated with the long, repetitive hours and needed someone to punish.
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I am left in wonder and craving for more. This, my friend, is the Caribbean.
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Dr. James Holden considers the irresistable pull of Christmas’s sleigh bell-punctuated nostalgia.
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“‘Dad rung me earlier.’ It was the first time he’d ever rung me and as soon as I’d seen it was him at nine in the morning I had known. ...
As Christmas draws near, we look at some of the recent new releases by Litro authors, including Toby Litt, Adam Nevill and Jenn Ashworth.
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“I couldn’t move home, but maybe I could repay some of their kindness. I knew their stories of Christmas gifts that never arrived, and I knew their current interests. I ...
For an abject lesson in how to stage a classic farce, you could do a lot worse than the National Theatre’s current production of Arthur Wing Pinero’s The Magistrate. It ...
Families are like boxes of chocolates. They turn up around Christmas, full of joyful truffles and pralines, and then six days and five boxes later you’re furiously sick of them ...
This is one of the times of year that I am particularly made to notice how bad I am at being a woman. I am reminded of it in a ...
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Food! Glorious food … we just can’t get enough of it, especially at Christmas time – on our plates, in our dreams, and especially in our ...
