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No Such Luck: The Tree
“‘Dad rung me earlier.’ It was the first time he’d ever rung me and as soon as I’d seen it was him at nine in the morning I had known. ...
No Such Luck: The Machine
“We burnt the machine that evening. No-one suggested it. There was no discussion. If I looked at it too long I felt like I could begin to discern its purpose. ...
No Such Luck: Snapshot
“She wanted to go somewhere foreign, and just be herself for a while. The good thing about being somewhere foreign, she had realised very early on, was that she really ...
No Such Luck: Terry
“In the middle of me saying something – ‘Hang on, Terry’s up.’ And she’s off, to fix my brother.”
No Such Luck: A Walk in the Park
“He looks up. He can only see one airplane, but so many vapour trails streak the clear-blue sky, it’s scarred like a skating rink. Ice dancers to London Luton.”
No Such Luck: The Offspring Badge
“Nobody ever tells you how numbing divorce is, how inert it leaves you, the silence once cherished in parts of the house now condemning as you struggle to conceive how ...
The Heat Comes Early This Year
Brent van Staalduinen explores the ramifications of discovering three of his students with hashish in Kuwait, a conservative Muslim country that still has the death penalty for trafficking.
Litro #139: No Such Luck, Magazine | Archives
Litro #139: No Such Luck
Featuring new fiction from David Rose, Simon Holloway, Matthew Di Paoli, Kelly Creighton, Reece Choules, Michelle Bracken and Lucy Durneen – plus poetry from Dominic Stevenson, and an interview with ...
Letters from the Editor, Litro #139: No Such Luck
Litro #139: No Such Luck – Letter from the Editor
Dear Reader,
We all know the whims of lady luck. Looking back on 2014, most of us will have had our fair share of ...
Fiction, Litro #139: No Such Luck
At Colonus
Sleeping rough in modern London.
Fiction, Litro #139: No Such Luck
Mosquitoes
The lonely existence of those who are left behind.
Fiction, Litro #139: No Such Luck
The Cleaning Lady
Echoes of a childhood infatuation.
Fiction, Litro #139: No Such Luck
Teenage Icon
Revisiting a past lover.
Litro #139: No Such Luck, Poetry
I Was There
Remembering the fallen.
Litro #139: No Such Luck, Poetry
Bonfire Night Beneath the Stars
A meditation on inequality.
Fiction, Litro #139: No Such Luck
Seen and Not Seen
Enduring the pain of loss.
Fiction, Litro #139: No Such Luck
No Angels
What happens after death?
Fiction, Litro #139: No Such Luck
Wild Gestures
Lucy Durneen deconstructs an affair.
Interviews, Litro #139: No Such Luck
Author Q&A with Colin Barrett
In discussion with the award-winning author of Young Skins.