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Dear Galactic Living (From the Dystopian Letters)
For our pastime we go to the Zero-G Room and do a lot of fun things.
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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 have to be on the lookout. Could a driverless car do that?”
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.
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.
When there is Silence
Edward’s pager bleats. He sits up, checks the number and reaches for a phone.
Controlling the Means of Production
If this superlative gastronomic experience is the result of a meal-prepping AI unobtrusively pulling dining data from my infome, I can’t complain. Far from it. My compliments to the data-harvesting ...
My 3 Favorite Dramatic Crime Reads of the Past 5 Years.
As the summer progresses and the warm weather-induced laziness sets in, I’ve found myself longing for a good summer read. This has caused me to reflect on some of my ...
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 Introductory Note
Ira Silverberg
Nadia Owusu- “ ...
My Room in Seville
“I need a room for to-night.”
I kept it succinct. There was no need to elaborate what I might actually need. It all goes quicker if he only concentrates on one ...
Planting Season
Buy a bag of discarded bones and meat scraps from your butcher. Take them home and plant them. Be sure to use good potting soil and water regularly. You don’t ...
How it Ends
It was Dom and Tony’s second day in anatomy lab when Philip the cadaver started speaking to them.
“I’m an excellent specimen. If you don’t fuck this up you could ...
The Other Shore
The sky. The grass. Blue. Green. Cloud country. Expansive. Overwhelming. So blue. So green. Screams. Mom. Toddler. Arm. Extends. Mouth. Open. Bees. Fill.
The Public Beach
The American lay on his towel and watched the woman from behind his sunglasses, trying to decide if she was Latin or Lebanese and how he might initiate some sort ...
SHOTGUN WEDDING: VANCOUVER, 1960
WITHIN A WEEK OF THE DAY ED MET GIOVANNA IN THE BEER PARLOUR AT THE COBALT, Mrs. Pinsky married them in the living room of her house near the corner ...
Crank Call
The police were always at our building, shaking down suspects, and belting out questions. Where did you get the drugs? Why did you ...
Louisville Slugger
And maybe he only did it because he was tired.
Maybe that was it, maybe mama not baking the honey baked ham with the glistening mounds of soaked black beans ...
Digital Subscriptions, Uncategorised
Litro #148: The Going Home issue
The Taste of Water
Can you describe it? Can you describe the taste of water?
No, not mineral, not bubbly water…
Plain water, flat, ...
Instinct
Outside the sky was clearing. The stray rock lay at an arm’s distance in his cage. His own body stood outside, free and smiling at him. With the monkey now ...