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The Birthday Party
One husband, two sons. Alive. Limbs and faculties intact. I got away with it?
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Unity
Freedom comes at high costs, and requires plenty of responsibility…Latvia learned this the hard way. And it is a lesson, and a price, my adopted home country of the ...
Digital Subscription, Litro #169: Korea, Print Issues
Where Are We Now
The ongoing project, “Where Are We Now”, is a series of linoleum cut prints in comic strip format in two matrixes, one in a comic-strip style and another in repetition of the ...
On Culture: Parenting, Reading, Emigrating, Love
It didn’t occur to me until last Christmas, as I hugged my family goodbye in Washington’s Dulles Airport, that there might have been a better reason for my mother’s adherence ...
It’s Alright, Meaning Just Admit It
My mother would describe her gynecological problems to strangers. I would be trying on a pair of jeans, and I would hear “womb” or “spasm” over the curtain.
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Chino
Her mother did nothing but shake her head as he’d then barricade her inside that dark tomb for hours.
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Anything Could Happen Here
After sunset, she multiplied and subtracted, structured her existence. She likes the feel of numbers, she can smell them as she counts, taste their shape. In the dark, she weighs ...
Q&A: Jo Gatford
I enjoy being inside a character’s head, especially if they’re somewhat unpleasant or difficult to sympathise with. I try my best to draw out the kind of thoughts they would ...
I Remember: Brothers
Novelist Kevin Brockmeier has written the second instalment in Litro’s new series of miniature memoir. He’s nine or ten, and he’s looking down on traffic.
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Protection or Privacy: Observation is Futile in This Dark Road to Mercy
A deconstruction of safety and security within Wiley Cash’s latest novel – and our current Litro Book Club pick – This Dark Road to Mercy.
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The Barbarossa Express
“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 ...
Family: Evergreen
“When unconscious not all three year olds will convulse. Not all fathers will sink to their knees and whimper as if those lids will never again open on green.”
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Family: Vignette – The Colonel and His Wife (Catterick, North Yorkshire)
“The Colonel’s grandson, insisting that it was not unusual for his wife to forego breakfast in favour of sleep, twice succeeded in stopping his grandfather from personally checking and double-checking ...
Family: Memorial
“I place the incense sticks on the earth in front of each trunk. Normally, I’d count to make sure that no tree gets any more or less. But ...
Family: Feature Film – Nebraska
Alexander Payne returns with another sensitive portrayal of fractured family life
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Broken Homes and Broken People; the Meaning of ‘Family’ in This Dark Road to Mercy
Claire Rodwell explores the broken family unit within Wiley Cash’s This Dark Road to Mercy and the unconventional influence this has on Easter and Ruby’s perception of familial roles.
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Family: To Become Immortal
“At the funeral of a distant relative, you’ll need to be embraced by a big woman in a floral dress, with circular sunglasses and a wide-brimmed hat. In her eyes ...
Family: Fairytale
“Once upon a time and once upon a time and once upon a time we were young.”
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Family: Francesca Niebla
“Francisca and Juan will move into a house on the hill in Bormla with Duminku’s brothers, Mosè and Abram, his sister Lehla, and Abram’s wife Philumena. In Malta, Francisca and ...
Family: X Marks the Spot
“My son Telep likes to lie on his back in the field behind our house during thunderstorms. He’s been doing it for years.”
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