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Tuscany! Tuscany!
“We were no longer young.” GC Perry sets the violent breakdown of a marriage in the warmth and magnificence of Tuscany’s countryside.
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She Sings as She Flies
An old house. Drugs. Danger. One old woman must grapple with her memories and the passage of time in a haunting tale of love, loss, and the echoes of the ...
Digital Subscription, Litro #184: Memory, Print Issues
Baby Clean
“The best trick of your twenties is to eschew self-reflection." The witty ups and downs of our twenties and life in the city.
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Digital Subscription, Litro #184: Memory, Print Issues
We Are Near the End Now
“What am I to do with this one life? That is all I think about all day long.” The story of a copywriter and the monotony of life.
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Digital Subscription, Litro #184: Memory, Print Issues
Other Poetry
N/A Oparah brings us an exploration into mother-daughter relationships, and the way religion and technology play their part.
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The Smell of Home
“Good cooking takes time and sacrifice; good Pakistani cooking takes much, much more.” An essay on generational differences and Eid.
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René Magritte’s The Banquet
Dorothy Lune's flash piece gives voice to a vibrant René Magritte painting, pushing the boundaries between words and visual art.
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Finding Flow
"In going with the flow of the river, perhaps I would rediscover my own." Despite the climate crisis and pandemic, nature heals all.
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Maps to Lost Futures
Don’t you know, the heart gets lost in so much empty space?
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I Don’t Have a Very Good Memory
A powerful essay from a survivor of the Dunblane massacre explores trauma, memory loss, grief, and survival.
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Letters from the Editor, Litro #184: Memory, Print Issues
Litro #184: Editor’s Letter
As September shuffles in, take a dip into Litro #184: Memory, and allow yourself to reflect on the summer just gone.
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#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction
The Grocer
When we set up the equality, inclusion and diversity programme, internally known as EID, pronounced /eɪd/, we thought a guy like Ted – let’s call him Ted – was perfect. ...
Editor's Pick, Experimental Writing Issue, Fiction, Story Sunday
FIRST BUNDLE OF DOCUMENTS (from THE OLIVE DRAB FOOTLOCKER)
Photo by Angie Chung.
Is it turtles all the way down?
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The supreme principle is the monad. The monad is also a second principle, along with the dyad. The ...
Soundtracks
In the provincial town of Udon Thani, in Northern Thailand, in the middle of a brain-meltingly hot day, my partner and I find a terrace and sit down to have ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
AZALEAS
On constructing new vessels
About ...
Editor's Pick, Essay, Essay Saturday
AT THE TAILOR’S
Measure for measure
About ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
THE SLAMMING DOOR
During an attack, a woman recalls a ghostly presence
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Books, Essay, Feature, On Writing
LAWYERS, LIGHTBULBS, AND THE IMPORTANCE OF TRUSTING YOUR GUT
On the challenges of writing and the sins of memory
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Why Facebook is Better Than Your Brain
Kevin Baker considers the ways in which Facebook acts as a memory database – and ponders what this means for the human brain.
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Novel: Spilt Milk by Chico Buarque
It’s not often I get to the end of a novel and realise I need to reread it straight away. Not just because I liked it—I did—but because I realised ...