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Novel: Cold Nights of Childhood (Çocukluğun Soğuk Geceleri)
Tezer Ozlu explores the extremity of her inner life and the painful pleasures of memory.
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Shanghaied
Shanghaied, takes readers on a surreal and introspective journey through a layover in Shanghai that unravels into paranoia, mishap, and poignant self-discovery.
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Joined onto the past like a man’s arm to his shoulder
Your cousin asks you to ‘say something’ at the christening of her daughter and it genuinely is an honour to be asked and really-all-confusing because in your mind your cousin ...
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Jeff’s binge
When I am right here right now, where you can help?!
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Born Again
“If mystics are right, how many lives can we have?” Michelle finds the myriad joys and surprises that the prophecies of psychics can brings.
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The Pandemic Do-Gooders
In the first weeks of the pandemic, an immune-compromised person seeks help from some yoga people.
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Going ‘Piano’ in Val di Sole
The cluster of dwellings, a motley collection of ancient ruins and pristine modern cottages, beckoned, as I swerved off the road running parallel to the Noce torrent.
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The Elements of Story
The first time that I wrote something, I was in Japan, eating an egg that I’d hard- boiled in a Hello Kitty kettle with Engrish faux-proverbs all over the side.
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The Current Unrest
“I have one eye trained on the volcanic mountain…” Today’s #EssaySaturday is “The Current Unrest” by Kaitlin Solimine.
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Homesick and Haunted: When House of leaves Changed my Life
I briefly look up from my frantic journaling, glancing at the cloud cover out the window.
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Bus Reading
I elongated vowels, chewed on consonants until I read world-building sentences.
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The Woman at the Door
One Sunday morning, there was a knock on my door. There’d been a party the night before, and I hadn’t gone to bed until 4 a.m. I couldn’t imagine who ...
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To the American Businessman in the Hotel Room Next to Ours
I stood from the cot next to the shared wall. My mom leaned in close to hear you. Another crash. Furniture scraping against the floor. We listened to someone’s heavy ...
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Drift
Put some music on. Go on, put something on. Sometimes we would last two tracks, sometimes three. The hand that unhitched itself from the steering wheel and put us back ...
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Riding an Endangered Eagle
The train between Mexico City and Nuevo Laredo was called the Águila Azteca (Aztec Eagle). Within a year of this ride, this passenger train service – along with dozens upon dozens ...
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Litro #182: Experimental – Storytelling: The Global Rabbit Hole
And for me, story is an experience that takes us to a place where we ache to go again, and again, and again, to tell our friends.
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Litro #182: Experimental – The Unexpected Pay Off of Poetry
Poetry as a rule harms no one. No thing. Poetry only helps, in its purest form, it intends to heal.
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The King’s Gardner
He indicated a solitary rose drooping against a cracked wall in which curious lizards cocked their heads, and then he swept his arms encompassing everything around us.
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A Litany
You see yourself as one of the lucky ones.
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Lucky
Photo by Mattias Ripp
I was lucky. They only took my handbag. Sure, they had to floor me first, because I dared to clutch my possessions.
“Was it at night?” is the ...