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A CROOKED MAN’S KNEE
A crooked man comes visiting.
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Lilac Paint | Litro Lab Podcast
What happens when a young couple must make a difficult choice together?
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A Living Hell
Nigel’s body was stuck in the thick glossy foliage at the bottom of the ravine. No one had found it. He couldn’t pass through from this life to the ...
HER
HER, a short story about a social media-fuelled obsession with a love rival.
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Invisible
Sally laughs out loud, breathes in the night air then strides forwards, her head held high as she’s assailed by the treacherous rain. Her shoes feel tight, her wig feels ...
Waiting for the Flood OR The Bathers
The two women are sitting in their beach chairs in the shallow water, low waves and foam lapping at their bare calves… They look to the west, from where the ...
Travelling Back
Sometimes I go back in time and meet myself. This time I see myself, fifteen years old, in the basement of my grandparents’ house, cutting the sleeves off a ...
Safe
If she’d asked me for the potion on any other day I’d have handed it over, pressed it into her
hands with my mouth almost crescented, not quite smiling but ...
Digital Subscription, Fiction, Litro #144: Transgender
Walking with Alice
In this poetic story, ‘walking with Alice’ on a summer night becomes a trial. Facing the laughs of women and the potential violence of men, often misogynistic and transphobic, the ...
Digital Subscription, Fiction, Litro #144: Transgender
The Holiday Camp
A story of awakening, of self-awareness, a realisation made in the queer underbelly of what seems like the most ‘straight’ environment imaginable. Is Sam exploring the possibilities of gender, or ...
Recognition
Working as a maid in Thailand, Mahmuda does her best to respect the order of her employers and the conventions of their culture. But what happens when she has to ...
Digital Subscription, Fiction, Litro #144: Transgender
Bits of Me
A young trans woman mourns the death of her grandmother, and then deals with the ripple effects of being told to attend the funeral as a boy.
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The Nipple Factory
Bo used a highly specialised mechanical saw to carve tiny bits of a hard polymer into nipple shapes. He had been in his job for a month when Rebecca’s letter ...
Wonder in Bloomsbury: Robert Irwin in conversation with Marina Warner at the London Review Bookshop
In November, the oldest known collection of Arabic short stories, Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange, was finally released in English translation. Xenobe Purvis sees Robert Irwin, ...
Q&A with Laura Dockrill
I enjoy the journey of writing. I like the bacteria and mess inside the newness of a germ of an idea — being in the thick of it with words ...