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RUTH GILLIGAN IN CONVERSATION
Ruth Gilligan in conversation about her award-winning novel The Butchers
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
I DREAM IN PINK
Menstruation strains a relationship.
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DEAR ME | LITRO LAB PODCAST
A letter to a former self living in an easier past.
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GHOST WORLD PROBLEMS
A new ghost figures out the rules of the game.
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Cellular
A mother must acknowledge the passionate partnership of her daughter
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NAM
Two veterans make a choice.
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Closing Night
They’re closing this magic space of dust and light: the last nights, after months of fighting, of a Soho bar.
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Somebody
A fashion photographer remembers her start in the business, in a story examining the nature of success, the illusions we believe in and the boundaries which we contain ourselves within.
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The room where I sleep
A return home and a day in a charity shop…
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When the tears don’t fall
An intimate portrayal of a young couple dealing with the loss of their child.
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The Man Who Said Snap
We hired him to paint our shopfront. A story about work, and loss.
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Museums, Museums, Museums
An essay exploring the museum in three parts. First, an account of a childhood experience of a museum, second, through a report about John Nevin, an employee of the V&A ...
Burrowing
She’d been lying awake since the crack of dawn, watching the sunrise creeping through the side of her curtains.
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Dog in a Frame
Headlights are returning to the streets, drifting across the hall from the living-room door….
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You Can Be the Cowboy
We decided to build the den from all that we could forage from the forest. The one that breathed down the back of our house.
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Arts & Culture, Essay Saturday
Hackney Kisses
“Hackney Kisses” is a series of graffitied wedding photographs.
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The Women of Absolute Music Build Their Society
World’s Fair, Paris, summer of 1900: we’ve arrived from two dozen countries. Nine hundred ninety-nine women with a single fever dream.
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On the Bridge
Amidst this evening’s homeward rush two figures are motionless, one seated on the outer edge of the bridge’s parapet, legs dangling over the sheer drop, the other standing beside him, ...
A Strange Companion
A commentary on the strange pets we keep!
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Too Dark to See Anything New
He was angry online, on Twitter and Facebook, and he was angry at work. He was angry at home when he was with his wife and kids, a boy and ...