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From the Balcony
“You can have this memory, if you want, completely uncorrupted.” On the balcony, two friends talk away the world.
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Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, podcast
Life in the Dressing Room of the Theatre
“A hush would fall like a curtain mid-act before Annie walked out.” Our latest Podcast is “Life in the Dressing Room of the Theatre” by Elinora Westfall.
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Litro #182: Experimental, Print Issues
Litro #182: Experimental – Parenthetical
we (and by we I mean Claire (the woman I swore (vow (we still vow, we still pledge ourselves, like honourable (‘honour you’, that’s a wedding vow (there’s that word ...
Digital Subscription, Fiction, Litro #182: Experimental
Litro #182: Experimental – Lumen Odyssey
Space does not exist.
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Litro #182: Experimental – A Rogue Cure
On sunny afternoons, I go out to the street to eat tar.
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
Come for Me
We swung in the wooden swing, creaking back and forth, or rocked in paint-pealing chairs while she and my parents talked of weather, war, politics, or relatives.
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
Prepare to be Amazed
His mother hovers over a pirate ship cake. The father loiters by the tea urn.
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Tutee
Sharon was usually waiting for me outside her front door. She said the sound of the doorbell woke her dad up. It was a comfort that she was as I ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Delicate Flower
What we can sense when it is quiet.
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Customer Enquiry
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Dear Customer #9375508,
Thank you for letting us know about your unsatisfactory experience. While our engineers at Girlfriend Factory™ are working hard to remove all technical difficulties, our customer ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
Literary Love
Attributed to William Notman. Still Life with Books, 1870s–80s. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
214 – Theodicy
God is good. Bad things happen. Both of these things can ...
Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Reviews
Book Review: Metronome
Not all that is hidden is lost
About ...
#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction
Gigadyne™ Omniservices Co.
Photo by David Stewart
Garrison and I sit in our chairs and watch the pale blue dot spin on the monitor. The pale blue dot spins on the monitor thirty ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
For Rent: A Museum
When they came for him, I did not ask questions.
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Mal Vu
You are fourteen when your dad moves the family halfway across the country to a place called River View. The name is a broken promise: your flat looks out onto ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
a set somewhere hidden in Hollywood
Photo by Dave Winer
a set somewhere hidden in Hollywood
kept out of sight not because the filming was a flop no because it worked out only too well and has somehow ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Pigeon
Photo by Clay Leconey
There was something incongruous about the man’s back. My eyes followed him around the bookshop. He was slim, of medium height, dressed in beige, classic-cut mackintosh, and ...
Books, Editor's Pick, Flash Friday
Kali’s Tongue
On finding oneself
About Rituparna ...
Arts & Culture, Books, Fiction, Reviews
BOOK REVIEW: THE SELFLESS ACT OF BREATHING
JJ Bola’s latest novel, The Selfless Act of Breathing, reviewed.
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Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Reviews
BOOK REVIEW: CAVANAUGH
Joshua Kornreich’s latest novel Cavanaugh reviewed
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