“And there’s the Milky Way splashed across the sky – right where I left it.” Amanda Barusch outlines the shape of stars and grief.
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“Look what I found on the doorstep this morning,” says Emilio, cradling something on his hands as he enters the kitchen “but I don’t know what to make of it. ...
“I put Gary down as just another relic of the hippy era eking out his pension in the Land of Smiles.” Bangkok, retirement, friendship, life.
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“She let his words gather then cracked them open like fruit.” Hospitals, daughters, relationships: how one woman struggles through it all.
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“The future is a rumour, the trader said.” Read the final installment of AJW’s magnificent, timeless piece: “Cap de Creus III.”
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A futuristic look at our fraying ecology: “Out on the streets, stray dogs collapsed, their jaws sunk into pools of their own drool
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“I would gaze up at the stars and sink into my dreams like honey.” A quiet tale of relationships, alcohol, and (mis)communication.
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“Maybe I could not see the future made, the on and the off, or what I could have thought.” The next installment of this captivating read.
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“A brief history of fucking: “”We found each other.. when teen angst had the urge to yank
innocence’s hair, talk dirty in its ear.”
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“Joe was in seventh heaven. This was what life was all about.” A beautiful story of childhood and the freedom the ocean offers to us all.
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“Our bodies can – get this, ‘bear witness to the pain history didn’t quite extinguish.’” A story of dating through OCD and grief.
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“Like the holes, his fears would be washed away, disappearing with the passing of time.” Emotions ebb and flow in today’s wistful tale.
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Men armed with hatchets, not cameras. Men who hunted them thinking there was value in a strip of unshaded land. Today’s Flash Friday “The Hunt by Lisa Farrell.
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“What would it be like to let go?” In today’s #FlashFriday, a woman goes climbing to escape her grief and her life down below.
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“Jane mostly has feelings, rather than opinions, which are harder to defend and easier to laugh at.” Class and generations clash in “Soup Kitchen” by Ellen Jones.
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“You have to focus on the good things. How would you cope otherwise?” Happiness after grief: today’s #TuesdayTale is “River” by Sarah Turner.
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“My dad’s dead now. My mum says that he was a hero. He died in a senseless war.” Today’s Tuesday Tale shows the wide-reaching impact of PTSD.
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“The air hung with inevitability. The sea still rose and fell in muted waves.” Today’s tense and mysterious #TuesdayTales piece is “The Storm Collector” by Rebecca Hawkins.
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Litro was deeply saddened to learn of Obinna’s recent passing. His immense love for literature & his journey as a writer remains an inspiration. We mourn the loss of this ...
In which God shows the many forms of his fury. ‘God kicking down doors on His way across the sky, grey
voluminous beard billowing.’
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