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Litro #183: Place – Black Excellence
They walked the four blocks to the school in silence, Adam in his head, Shayla in hers.
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Litro #183: Place, Print Issues
Litro #183: Place – Place
In the long summer holidays, the boy would accompany his mother to work. They woke early on these days, too early even for the sun.
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Litro #183: Place, Print Issues
Litro #183: Place – A Place Called Home
As a writer, I learned early on there was no one place to call home.
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Litro #183: Place, Print Issues
Litro #183: Place – Note from the Editor
For our PLACE issue, we at Litro were very much interested in hearing from those among you who made the jump from New York to New Hampshire, from San Francisco ...
Litro #183: Place, Print Issues
Litro Spring 2023: Place Edition
Litro’s PLACE issue promises to put new names on the map, alongside famous authors and emerging writers. In support of our friends at Pen Parentis, we particularly encouraged writers who ...
Litro #183: Place, Print Issues
Fear, Loathing and Feistiness in Writing about Sex
Back to writing about sex. The trouble with writing about sensuality today is that we are being prodded from all directions.
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Litro #183: Place, Print Issues
Litro #183: Place – Forever Sweet Sweet
“It’s your turn to marry,” Little Auntie Xiǎo Gū said in Mandarin, “Your father says your boyfriend is poor. He’s found you another.”
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Litro #183: Place, Print Issues
Litro #183: Place – I was an Osaka neighbourhood
I was the boy in the morning, losing his parasol. I was the parasol, caught by a breeze.
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Litro #183: Place, Print Issues
Litro #183: Place – My Polar Summer, an Essay by Agatha Lin
Can you keep a secret, Ms. Sharma? If you can’t, just rip up this essay right now. Still reading?
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Litro #183: Place, Print Issues
Litro #183: Place – A Person of Two Places
For me, writing has been a process of migrating, reluctantly, from one place to another, from a place at my desk to a place in my mind.
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Litro #183: Place, Print Issues
Litro #183: Place – Free Range
Each of those first few days startled me awake. I’d lay discombobulated, feeling the yolk in my belly stir and the toddler next to me turn, and remember that I ...
Litro #183: Place, Print Issues
Litro #183: Place Edition – Notes from a reader: M. M. De Voe, Pen Parentis
The word is parenting—and as an intransitive verb, it was first coined in 1959. Until the 1960s, you might be the parent of someone, but you did not “parent” them.
One ...