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StorySunday

Manhattan Schist

“Reid was the most observant, sensitive child, compassionate to a fault – and we need people ... Keep Reading
FridayFlash

WANDERING STARS

Manual labor suited Kiichi best. After the Great Kantō earthquake of 1923 killed his wife and ... Keep Reading
FridayFlash

EMILY, ANECHOIC

The anechoic chamber lay at the heart of six concrete onion layers, a nesting of rooms ... Keep Reading
Story Sunday, StorySunday

Lemon Drop

‘Everyone deserves the truth, Nouk.’

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StorySunday

Someday We’ll Dance Again

Set in 1906, a young man from Gibraltar who emigrates to New York City to make ... Keep Reading
StorySunday

Someone to Love Me

He said he was a fashion designer. But he lived off his investments. ... Keep Reading
FridayFlash

LONGING — BY DOROTHY CORNISH

How strange to think of life in your bedroom, staring at the wall, or at the ... Keep Reading
StorySunday

The Provision of Benches

The joys of sitting weren’t lost on someone who stood for a living. ... Keep Reading
FridayFlash

STOP MAKING SENSE

I took the last picture I still have of you with a cracked old Polaroid we ... Keep Reading
Essays

From Somewhere

An essay examining the intersections of past and distant present, fixed and transient, wildlife in Central ... Keep Reading
FridayFlash

NO MAN’S LAND

His bottle’s gone. His power. He turns towards The Lovely Adrienne to tell her: stall them, feed ... Keep Reading
StorySunday

Roman Numeral Relationships

An observation and mediation on modern life and love. ... Keep Reading
Essays

Still in Manhattan few smile. You learn to thicken your skin here, to become hardened. It’s ... Keep Reading
FridayFlash

JFK

So the plane is landing and I’m sitting next to my friend Sara who is going ... Keep Reading
StorySunday

The Compass Turns Thrice

Time is wobbling the way compass points hover or spin for no rhyme or reason on ... Keep Reading
FridayFlash

ROSIE GOLDSTEIN WAS A DOG

In the fourth grade, boys in the town of Huntington Harbor started to notice which girls ... Keep Reading
StorySunday

The Mothers

I learned there are three ways to make money. Get more people to buy, get people ... Keep Reading
FridayFlash

LOVE-YOU-LOTS

He’s got that new song by The Streets stuck in his head, the one with the ... Keep Reading
StorySunday

A Tyranny of Wind

“Weather is immune to history, law, diplomacy, and sometimes even reason…” ... Keep Reading
FridayFlash

SHAMU CAM

Shamu Cam came live from Shamu’s tank at Sea World, Orlando…. ... Keep Reading
StorySunday

The Mist

“I can still taste the shock of it, hot like gulped coffee, and underneath feel my ... Keep Reading
FridayFlash

THE SNAKE

I once lived in a three-bedroom unit in an elegant condominium with white paint in Simei, ... Keep Reading
StorySunday

The Future of Love

A woman who is sick turns to love she can pay for. ... Keep Reading
FridayFlash

TIME TRAVELING UNCLE

He first disappears just before I am born. I have no memory of it, of course, ... Keep Reading
StorySunday

Getting By, Going By

This morning she pushes a clump of matted hair away from her face as she watches ... Keep Reading
FridayFlash

THE CASHMERE CLOAK

Out on the front patio of the old coffee shop — they meet here every day, ... Keep Reading
StorySunday

Outsider, Insider

“Excuse me,” I began, wearing a smile I tried my best to make amiable rather than ... Keep Reading
FridayFlash

VITA SACKVILLE-WEST, LOVER OF VIRGINIA WOOLF

I drove a different way, the last time, taking a road that turned out not to ... Keep Reading
FridayFlash

TOMORROW I SHALL BE FETTERLESS-BUT WHERE?

I would question the sanity of anyone who’s not questioning their own sanity nowadays, Doctor, but ... Keep Reading
StorySunday

Sickle Claws: Hesperonychus Monstrous

A macabre, disturbing story of monsters and mothers.

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StorySunday

Momma’s a Butcher

We are going somewhere far: a dark tale of blood and knives. ... Keep Reading
FridayFlash

MAGPIE

I could hear them every day. Sometimes they sounded like little horses cantering around on the ... Keep Reading
Arts & Culture

A Very Open Letter from Donald Hump

This very open letter is not only for fake democrats but also proud republicans who have ... Keep Reading
StorySunday

Bad Research

A humorous take on a writer who manipulates life for his art and its ramifications. ... Keep Reading
FridayFlash

TOLSTOY VISITS HIS STEPMOM

The weather had turned for the better since the last night. She had retired to her ... Keep Reading
StorySunday

Twisting the Reels

There’s nothing to spill, but it rolls across my uneven floor to the opposite corner of ... Keep Reading
Essays

Van Gogh Unbound

Art as therapy is explored in this personal essay about loss. ... Keep Reading
FridayFlash

MEDUSA GOES TO MORRISONS — BY EMILIA ONG

It’s terrible, you see they’ve started using paper bags at the supermarket. Brown paper bags. Well ... Keep Reading
StorySunday

Bradley Beach

A story about love and faith and reconciling with a dark secret from the past. ... Keep Reading
Essays

Feelin’ like a Criminal: Trauma in ‘My Dark Vanessa’ through the music of Fiona Apple

‘My Dark Vanessa’ through the music of Fiona Apple, encompassing #MeToo and Lolita along the way. ... Keep Reading
FridayFlash

KEEP YOUR KNICKERS ON

As a teen, I was obsessed with my knickers, whether to allow boys into them and ... Keep Reading
FridayFlash

GLUE

She had been collecting supplies for some time: fabric, yarn, scissors, and glue. Strong glue. She ... Keep Reading
Fiction, StorySunday

Unicorn Cake

Are you one of the weird kids, too? A birthday party and a new friend. ... Keep Reading
Essays

The Frugal Repast

It was a mistake because no matter how many words I wrote, I couldn’t get any ... Keep Reading
Essays

Hindsight 2020: Notes on the First Year of the Trump Presidency

An Essay exploring the national crisis of narrative spawned by the Trump era, and the way ... Keep Reading
FridayFlash

THE END OF THE 20TH CENTURY

All the zines were printed at Lehman Brothers. All the zines were printed at Goldman Sachs. ... Keep Reading
Fiction, StorySunday

The Supplicant

We are the tall glasses of water, the tailwinds, the firm handshakes. We are the deserving ... Keep Reading
Essays

Lenin in the Sky

A young woman, in love, for the first time in New York, taking a stroll through ... Keep Reading
Fiction, StorySunday

Very Little like Alan

A visit to an old friend…

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Arts & Culture, Essays

The Adidas Yeezy; Or, The Self in Modern Times

Exploring the grey areas between literature and art, and also literature and culture. ... Keep Reading
FridayFlash

ON THE RECENT SERIES OF DISAPPEARANCES IN YOUR SMALL TOWN

In March, the snow melted, and the lake thawed, and we had to watch as these ... Keep Reading
Fiction, StorySunday

Guilty as Hell

Jury duty in a prairie town – crime in small-town America. ... Keep Reading
Essays

Starchy

Leaning forward in a taupe leisure suit, customed by his goombah Tony the tailor on Mulberry ... Keep Reading
FridayFlash

VIEW OF THE POND

She watches the pond from the front of the house. Upstairs. Her bedroom. In a pause ... Keep Reading
Arts & Culture, Essays

somewhere there is an abandoned refrigerator

You know who doesn’t mind a high desert July? The scorpions. ... Keep Reading
FridayFlash

A CLEAN SHAVE

Theo II’s ghost haunts me most nights, ever since I found him hanging in the stables, ... Keep Reading
Essays

We’ve Only Just Begun, Frankie

“We’ve only just begun to live White lace and promises A kiss for luck and we’re ... Keep Reading
StorySunday

Mr Spire

A young man’s night out in Dublin starts at its Spire. ... Keep Reading
FridayFlash

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL RUINS

In this short piece, Brazilian novelist and short-story writer, Carol Bensimon, posits the life of a ... Keep Reading
Fiction, StorySunday

Chippendales

I felt bad about it in high school, my vanity. Now I wear it proudly. Why ... Keep Reading
FridayFlash

NAME HER FOR HOPE —

I was born at 6:04 p.m. on the 3rd day of the Moon’s skulking journey across ... Keep Reading
Essays

A Legacy of Aunting in the Literary Community

It is steadfast. I know who I am for these kids – and through that sureness ... Keep Reading
Fiction, StorySunday

Catch and release

A story about two little girls going on a brief adventure. ... Keep Reading
FridayFlash

ARMBARS–IOWA CITY 1995

As I’d begun to do lately, get out paper, my stack of comics from under the ... Keep Reading
StorySunday

Blocked

A writer, Violet, working from home with severe case of writer’s block who discovers the walls ... Keep Reading
Essays

Coronavirus, or the voices to forget

Language is not neutral. It shapes what we can and can’t say, and how we say ... Keep Reading
StorySunday

Neighbors

The blonde spent about half of each day out on that new porch. She was this ... Keep Reading
FridayFlash

AGAIN, YET AGAIN

I was sitting in the rail station waiting for the 10:30 to London when a mother ... Keep Reading
StorySunday

The Gun

It wasn’t hers. Sue hadn’t wanted it, but there it was, on the seat beside her. ... Keep Reading
Essays

Opera at the Bistro

She scared the shit out of everyone. Even our boss Kim rarely looked Amanda in the ... Keep Reading
FridayFlash

BAD QI

He licks her big toe, glides his tongue across the arch of her foot, softens the ... Keep Reading
FridayFlash

=

The way the two women walk six feet apart, one on the sidewalk and the other ... Keep Reading
Essays

Graffiti

Graffiti explores themes of in-between-ness and uncertainty, connections made and missed. ... Keep Reading
Fiction, StorySunday

Ace

The first time I tried to deepen our kisses, she pulled back uncertainly. ... Keep Reading
Essays

Little America

A young woman grapples with loss and lack of direction in her life while driving across ... Keep Reading
FridayFlash

LIGHTING THE MATCH

All that winter we read Hannah Arendt, we read Men in Dark Times. ... Keep Reading
Essays

Good Friday, 2020

An essay about the absurdities and beauties and strangeness of the COVID-19 pandemic. ... Keep Reading
Fiction, StorySunday

Perfect Hair Day

All Val could see from the back of the conference room was row after row of ... Keep Reading
Essays

M and M

“John? Ah hate to bother you. Ah’m callin from the ICU. They’re going to cut off ... Keep Reading
Fiction, StorySunday

And my life unfolds

A story that explores patriarchy and how it affects a woman’s life. Set in Assam, India. ... Keep Reading
Arts & Culture, FridayFlash

ARIANE

There’s this bizarro technique my doctor’s urging. It’s got a bunch of scientific terms that just ... Keep Reading
Uncategorised

Dear Galactic Living (From the Dystopian Letters)

For our pastime we go to the Zero-G Room and do a lot of fun things. ... Keep Reading
Fiction, StorySunday

Fry Person

On paper, Arman was not unlike the other applicants. His face, just like the others, was ... Keep Reading
Essays

Things Behind the Sun

I smelled the signs of trouble.

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FridayFlash

FISH

After eight weeks at home, my daughter alternated between lethargy and irritability. Between sleeping and meltdowns, ... Keep Reading
Arts & Culture, Essays

Interiors

You are so beautiful it kills me, I said. I’m not, love, he said. Perhaps on ... Keep Reading
Fiction, StorySunday

Strange Waters

Mom says her father was an arsonist. She told me when I was eight. I sat ... Keep Reading
Essays

Can’t You Do Something About This?

First, let me say of course I’m worried about all of it: the global warming, the ... Keep Reading
FridayFlash

IT WASN’T FOR ME

It’s the kind of intimacy usually shared by people who are fucking. Not mother and daughter. ... Keep Reading
Fiction, StorySunday

When Blankoids Sing They Sound Like Elvis

During the winter of ’98, I think I was in love or obsessed with Mother Teresa. ... Keep Reading
Essays

euphoria

A person comes to terms with the communal experience of their gender. Acknowledging how they feel ... Keep Reading
FridayFlash

CUTTING TREES

My brother and I are surgeons. We spend our days in the woods by our home, ... Keep Reading
Fiction, StorySunday

Blood

Set during the EEE outbreak that gripped the Michigan region, a young man who, years after ... Keep Reading
Essays

I Want You to Know That I Was Hot Too

A Commentary on the #MeAt20 trend on Twitter which saw people posting photos of themselves at ... Keep Reading
FridayFlash

THE “JESUS LOVES ME” PAWN SHOP STORIES

The pearls had already seen much catastrophe. They were happy in the Jesus Loves Me pawn ... Keep Reading
Arts & Culture, The Litro Blog

Dear Rap Music (from the Dystopian Letters)

You started surveying in New York amongst poor Blacks who brought their blues, jazz, and spirituals ... Keep Reading
Essays

Elevtheria!

An American kid discovering Greece.

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FridayFlash

GOING TO THE OWLS

It starts with a girl— like you and me she walked these streets once. Right here, ... Keep Reading
Fiction, StorySunday

Grafted

Before the sun rises, a farmer must tell his son he is adopted. Whilst they attempt ... Keep Reading
Arts & Culture, Essays, Travel&Lifestyle

Rawhead and Bloody Bones

“A monster that lives in a cave up the road,” Evans said. “He looks in the ... Keep Reading
Fiction, StorySunday

A Dream

Maybe then she could stand on her tippy-toes and pull down the cables with both hands, ... Keep Reading
Arts & Culture, Essays

The Journey into Sacred Profanity: A Colorado Dance Troupe’s Mission of Empowerment

At first blush, a chapel might seem like an odd venue for a scene like this. ... Keep Reading
Fiction, StorySunday

Situation

…he looks out at a huge garden, nine thirty in the morning, caffe latte in hand. ... Keep Reading
Essays

Mom Mazin’

“Have you lost your virginity yet?” my mom asked in her usual impassioned tone as she ... Keep Reading
Arts & Culture

Dear Africa (from the Dystopian Letters)

With flashes from the camera phones incessant, the tourists take photo after photo of us, our ... Keep Reading
Arts & Culture, Essays, The Litro Blog

Dear Corporate State (from the Dystopian Letters)

We ride the trains incessantly, and they in reality go nowhere. They circle the 500 square ... Keep Reading
Essays

Rome Suppressed

Translated by Lucy Rand. I start to walk… I walk. I always walk when I need ... Keep Reading
Arts & Culture, Essays, The Litro Blog

Dear Pandemic (from the Dystopian Letters)

Everything is closed. The offices that tower to the sky in the skyscrapers, the schools, churches, ... Keep Reading
Fiction, StorySunday

Separation

“He took another deep, soulful breath. The smells were vivid, they carried with them a cascade ... Keep Reading
Essays

Prozac and Presence

Prozac made me cisgender, I say to my therapist inside of her bright blue office-box, barely ... Keep Reading
Art, Arts & Culture, Technology and Arts Issue

Art & Technology: Spring 2020: Editor’s letter.

Art across the globe is being influenced more and more by technology; or is it that ... Keep Reading
Fiction

Neighbor Cat

The fair is crowded. The fair is noisy. My anxiety level is skyrocketing. We wade with ... Keep Reading
Essays

Coming of Age on a Day of Rage

A story of how a peak moment for me as a parent was marred by an ... Keep Reading
Fiction, StorySunday

The story of my first love

I first saw her at a book burning. It was her eyes. That wild orange they ... Keep Reading
Essays

The Road that Leads Back Home

A writer arrives at the definition of home through her journeys around Nigeria. ... Keep Reading
Fiction

The Writing’s on the Wall

A journalist returns to the graffiti scene of his youth when a mysterious tag appears on ... Keep Reading
Fiction, StorySunday

Still Life

I shouldn’t be telling you any of this, Carl, but I know I can trust you. ... Keep Reading
Uncategorized

Cinnamon rolls and racists

Je confess! Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you. — John Ashbery ... Keep Reading
Print Issues, Technology and Arts Issue, Uncategorised

A Lack of Understanding: Storytelling for Robots

So whenever I drive past King’s and see a group of Chinese tourists, I know I ... Keep Reading
Fiction, Print Issues, Technology and Arts Issue, Uncategorised

The Representation of Augmented Reality in Fiction

Science fiction reflects our world, extrapolating our hopes and fears in a distant setting. ... Keep Reading
Print Issues, Technology and Arts Issue, Uncategorised

Art and Algorithms: The Work of Manfred Mohr by Charlotte Kent

…there is another side to algorithms epitomized in the art works of Manfred Mohr. ... Keep Reading
Art, Arts & Culture, Print Issues, Technology and Arts Issue

Five-Hundred Year Anniversary: Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre

It seems fitting that the current Louvre exhibition has surrounded the Renaissance man who saw himself ... Keep Reading
Arts & Culture, Interviews, Print Issues, Technology and Arts Issue

Interview with Virtual Reality artist, Rachel Rossin

Rachel Rossin is a multi-media and installation artist based in New York City ... Keep Reading
Arts & Culture, Interviews, Print Issues, Technology and Arts Issue

Interview with multidisciplinary artist Nwando Ebizie

At the heart of the piece is Ebizie’s experience of a rare neurological condition that was ... Keep Reading
Fiction

Do you love me?

Ben just called me through a third party and asked if I was still his girlfriend ... Keep Reading
Arts & Culture

Neo-slavery in Italy? The Controversial Status of Africa’s Migrants in the Boot

Italy’s race relations between white Italians and its African migrants and black Italians, while not stellar ... Keep Reading
Arts & Culture

The Email that I Just Sent my Psychiatrist was a Tour de Force of Sanity and Grace: On Reading from the Sent Folder

Dear Dr. Hanover, my Psychiatrist, I wrote you an email just now that was most certainly ... Keep Reading
Fiction

Playing By Ear

Soon Mother starts insisting that a tiny fairy lodges there in her middle ear, alongside the ... Keep Reading
Litro Desire Issue, Print Issues

Unmastered Desires

I didn’t want to be a victim to my desire, to the legacies of white supremacy ... Keep Reading
Litro Desire Issue, Print Issues, Uncategorised

Litro Desire Issue: Summer

Cover design Noa Gravesky Table of Contents Summer 2019 The Editor’s Letter Eric Akoto Guest Editor’s ... Keep Reading
Litro Desire Issue, Print Issues

Complicated Blues

The way she smiled at him nearly made me jealous. Even though I didn’t know who ... Keep Reading
Litro Desire Issue, Print Issues

A Good Mask by Nadia Owusu

Name, shame, secrete, wash, wipe clean, wring dry, sanitize. What I can’t expunge, I conceal. I ... Keep Reading
Art, Arts & Culture

Four Dope Queens

Through the platform of ANOKO, Obialo has promoted a plethora of African women in New York ... Keep Reading
StorySunday

Patti Smith Takes a Piss

“She hands off the clarinet, drops behind the plastic and, for the length of time it ... Keep Reading
FridayFlash

OUR TOURIST

Our tourist stood at the street corner. They didn’t know how to get to where they ... Keep Reading

Manhattan Schist
WANDERING STARS
EMILY, ANECHOIC
Lemon Drop
Someday We’ll Dance Again
Someone to Love Me
LONGING — BY DOROTHY CORNISH
The Provision of Benches
STOP MAKING SENSE
From Somewhere
NO MAN’S LAND
Roman Numeral Relationships
JFK
The Compass Turns Thrice
ROSIE GOLDSTEIN WAS A DOG
The Mothers
LOVE-YOU-LOTS
A Tyranny of Wind
SHAMU CAM
The Mist
THE SNAKE
The Future of Love
TIME TRAVELING UNCLE
Getting By, Going By
THE CASHMERE CLOAK
Outsider, Insider
VITA SACKVILLE-WEST, LOVER OF VIRGINIA WOOLF
TOMORROW I SHALL BE FETTERLESS-BUT WHERE?
Sickle Claws: Hesperonychus Monstrous
Momma’s a Butcher
MAGPIE
A Very Open Letter from Donald Hump
Bad Research
TOLSTOY VISITS HIS STEPMOM
Twisting the Reels
Van Gogh Unbound
MEDUSA GOES TO MORRISONS — BY EMILIA ONG
Bradley Beach
Feelin’ like a Criminal: Trauma in ‘My Dark Vanessa’ through the music of Fiona Apple
KEEP YOUR KNICKERS ON
GLUE
Unicorn Cake
The Frugal Repast
Hindsight 2020: Notes on the First Year of the Trump Presidency
THE END OF THE 20TH CENTURY
The Supplicant
Lenin in the Sky
Very Little like Alan
The Adidas Yeezy; Or, The Self in Modern Times
ON THE RECENT SERIES OF DISAPPEARANCES IN YOUR SMALL TOWN
Guilty as Hell
Starchy
VIEW OF THE POND
somewhere there is an abandoned refrigerator
A CLEAN SHAVE
We’ve Only Just Begun, Frankie
Mr Spire
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL RUINS
Chippendales
NAME HER FOR HOPE —
A Legacy of Aunting in the Literary Community
Catch and release
ARMBARS–IOWA CITY 1995
Blocked
Coronavirus, or the voices to forget
Neighbors
AGAIN, YET AGAIN
The Gun
Opera at the Bistro
BAD QI
=
Graffiti
Ace
Little America
LIGHTING THE MATCH
Good Friday, 2020
Perfect Hair Day
M and M
And my life unfolds
ARIANE
Dear Galactic Living (From the Dystopian Letters)
Fry Person
Things Behind the Sun
FISH
Interiors
Strange Waters
Can’t You Do Something About This?
IT WASN’T FOR ME
When Blankoids Sing They Sound Like Elvis
euphoria
CUTTING TREES
Blood
I Want You to Know That I Was Hot Too
THE “JESUS LOVES ME” PAWN SHOP STORIES
Dear Rap Music (from the Dystopian Letters)
Elevtheria!
GOING TO THE OWLS
Grafted
Rawhead and Bloody Bones
A Dream
The Journey into Sacred Profanity: A Colorado Dance Troupe’s Mission of Empowerment
Situation
Mom Mazin’
Dear Africa (from the Dystopian Letters)
Dear Corporate State (from the Dystopian Letters)
Rome Suppressed
Dear Pandemic (from the Dystopian Letters)
Separation
Prozac and Presence
Art & Technology: Spring 2020: Editor’s letter.
Neighbor Cat
Coming of Age on a Day of Rage
The story of my first love
The Road that Leads Back Home
The Writing’s on the Wall
Still Life
Cinnamon rolls and racists
A Lack of Understanding: Storytelling for Robots
The Representation of Augmented Reality in Fiction
Art and Algorithms: The Work of Manfred Mohr by Charlotte Kent
Five-Hundred Year Anniversary: Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
Interview with Virtual Reality artist, Rachel Rossin
Interview with multidisciplinary artist Nwando Ebizie
Do you love me?
Neo-slavery in Italy? The Controversial Status of Africa’s Migrants in the Boot
The Email that I Just Sent my Psychiatrist was a Tour de Force of Sanity and Grace: On Reading from the Sent Folder
Playing By Ear
Unmastered Desires
Litro Desire Issue: Summer
Complicated Blues
A Good Mask by Nadia Owusu
Four Dope Queens
Patti Smith Takes a Piss
OUR TOURIST

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