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The Little Mermaid
We all know how she got here. Want. Desire. All the poor little mermaid’s ever wanted is legs, to split open like a lazy mollusk revealing its tender bits
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Court
D’Ora with her coffee tries to focus and listen and care, but in a quick minute her mind goes to Phil. It’s been doing that a lot lately. ...
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Unmastered Desires
I didn’t want to be a victim to my desire, to the legacies of white supremacy and internalized homophobia.
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Litro Desire Issue: Summer
Cover design Noa Gravesky
Table of Contents
Summer 2019
The Editor’s Letter
Eric Akoto
Guest Editor’s Introductory Note
Ira Silverberg
Nadia Owusu- “ ...
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Fresh Sheets and 5 other short shorts
Thirsty. It made me thirsty to watch the drop of sweat that was balancing at the top of the hill formed by his bicep, as if the tribal tattoo encircling ...
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Complicated Blues
The way she smiled at him nearly made me jealous. Even though I didn’t know who she was, yet I was beginning to feel jealous.
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A Good Mask by Nadia Owusu
Name, shame, secrete, wash, wipe clean, wring dry, sanitize. What I can’t expunge, I conceal. I blur and disguise.
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Introduction by Ira Silverberg
Desire is complicated in that as much as it burns inside of you and demands an outlet as is it born of heart, of love, of wanting something that is ...
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Litro Desire: Editor’s Letter
There’s a sense of release about writing this Editor’s Letter because it means the final piece of the jigsaw puzzle is now in place. It means our hard work of ...
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Into the Pleroma
Rust-red mold on the pavements like a carpet, sweat permanently congealed on my skin, finding that a street ends in a chasm or sinisterly iridescent lake—I’m beginning to think you ...
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Homebound
The two men who approached us in Grand Central must have smelled it on us––the tension of coming apart.