Why having good dialogue in that story you’re writing is important!
What’s more difficult than writing a good story? Writing good dialogue. Dialogue is an essential part of every writer’s arsenal. Get it right and it can do wonders for your ...
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In Victorian Psycho, Virginia Feito tears apart the romanticized view of the Victorian era, exposing its dark undercurrents. Her bold portrayal of a female psychopath challenges readers to explore the ...
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8 Horror Books to Read
As summer’s heat intensifies and the nights become warm and muggy, there’s no better time to immerse yourself in some chilling horror fiction. Here are eight highly anticipated titles set ...
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Tomato
It was two perhaps three hours before she straightened up to get her breath back and started back with a yelp – a large fox was crouching on the roof ...
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A Flash of Inspiration: “It Wasn’t For Me” by Katy Ward
Welcome to Litro’s A Flash of Inspiration series! Once a month we will select a flash fiction or short story submission that we find especially intriguing and run a brief ...
Photo Inspiration: Construction – A building site is rife with hiding places.
Photo Inspiration: Merry-Go-Round – Stop, I want to get off.
Photo Inspiration: Disaster
Photo Inspiration: An Empty Seat, or Empty Seats.
Will someone rush in late, sidling down the row in the dark bumping knees and blocking the view? Or not. Perhaps something urgent came up, and they’re out there dealing ...
Photo Inspiration: New Year
Will everything change for the new year? New things can be exciting, or scary. Often they go from being one to the other. Is there a story in that journey?
Pictures of 2011: Winner!
Kevlin Henney
A work-related trip to New York in May afforded an opportunity to catch runners’ rituals. This chap’s posture is particularly cartoon-like.
Pictures of 2011: Runners-up
Ellie Rowe
I am British, but I fell in love with the Yukon this summer!
Pictures of 2011: Runners-up
Grace Andreacchi
The picture was snapped at the breakfast bar in the Caserma Cornoldi, an officers’ club of great antiquity in Venice (Petrarch lived there once) where I, through great good fortune, ...
Pictures of 2011: Runners-up
Mikaela Westerholm
Personal work from a series of images under the subject Dirt/Garbage.
On the 21st of September 2011 Mikaela Westerholm was taken in at a psychiatric ward in Stockholm. She was put ...
Photo Inspiration: Family Traditions – They must start somewhere.
Photo Inspiration: Drawers
You can uncover anything, or anyone, if you look hard enough. What story lurks in these drawers?
Photo Inspiration: Bouquet
Grand gesture of love? Memorial tribute? Apology? …
Photo Inspiration: Lights
Who or what is watching what or whom? Maybe your story begins at a night football match or in a prison yard. Or perhaps these are magnified neurons furiously sending ...
Photo Inspiration: Fair
All’s fair. Or is it? What goes on in the darkness behind the bright lights and manic carousel jingles? The boy who always rocks the ferris wheel car… do you ...