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A night out
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Words have infested my home.
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A strangely resonant story of teenage love, betrayal and friendship in the time of the Cold War.
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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 ...
A steamy dance hall gets even hotter when a mysterious blaze breaks out.
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Romantic feelings and scamming on the brunch bill put a group of friends under strain.
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Moving houses is disruptive: it can take a while to feel at ease in a new space. You get startled by noises you’re not used to. By different smells. By ...
This week on Litro Lab, we bring you a story of a woman who finds herself in a relationship that is far from ideal. Yet, she’s resistant to leave. ...
What happens when a young couple must make a difficult choice together?
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The boy would never know these memories. Watching his father’s face he saw the deep creases above his forehead, his narrowed eyes and his stubbled jaw, constantly chewing on something ...
I released the tube and let the blood seep into my hand, feeling my skin prick with warmth, awakening the euphoria. Leaving was a lone thing. Porphyria on her own. ...
Smile. Everyone would agree that a smiling person is far more approachable than a gloomy and surly one.
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I bet you never thought you’d be hearing this from a dead girl.
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After the breakup, she couldn’t stop thinking about the spinach.
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Imagine a cat, a stray, that became a woman every sunrise, a fierce black-haired woman named Lucia….
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Oxford, choked in an Edwardian haze, everything still there, waiting—
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He hadn’t slept in two days and held a human heart between his palms like clay.
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The voice of a twelve-year-old, as if it didn’t break properly all those years ago, although he’s not as old as you might be led to believe by all those ...
She longed to go outside and sit with her new tenant, Tom, but she restrained herself from doing so.
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