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The Edge of the World
A husband clings to a final journey to the place that once made them feel alive, while his wife quietly begins to imagine the world after him.
Editor's Pick, Essay, Essay Saturday, Features
Sketches of Short Days
In this poignant, personal essay, Tom sits with his terminally-ill uncle, Baz, and explores life, loss and laughter, right up to the end.
Skydive: Part Two
In the poignant conclusion to “Skydive,” navigate emotions, encounter a terminally ill man’s perspective, and grapple with death in a hospital’s unyielding corridors.
Skydive: Part One
In “Skydive,” confront mortality outside a hospital, navigating life’s banalities while awaiting entry to face an impending loss.
Fiction, LunchBreak Fiction, Technology, Tuesday Tales
Friends with Failure
Step into the world of support groups, kidney disease, and the hope of a transplant. Navigate the intricate roads of love and sex in the face of adversity.
Editor's Pick, Essay, Essay Saturday, Features
BECOMING
A lyrical meditation on reading and the body
SICK BAY | LITRO LAB PODCAST
The protagonist of this podcast had her own close encounters with death in the past. Through her own illness, she’s forced to relive an old trauma and face her worst ...
Days From Death
“Something told me that the lump on my arm wasn’t to be ignored. Rubbing my finger across the lump, I was certain there was a ball of something under my ...
Two Plastic Bags and a Wristband
Life on the cancer ward ebbs and flows in the way it does in any other tributary. A flutter of motion here, an abstract thought there. The need to eat ...
Maladies on the London Underground
The Roman philosopher Lucius Seneca said, “Disease is not of the body but of the place.” He must have been thinking of the Underground. But when speaking about the body ...