“They will pull out a knife, stab you. They will shoot you. These little boys, it’s unbelievable what kind of weapons they’ve got now.” An ex-gang member on the culture ...
For our Transgression theme, Thomas Chadwick revisits a Russian classic in which the laws constraining man can be broken, as long as you consider yourself extraordinary. First published in 1866, ...
What drives an individual to break the law or take on the might of a multinational corporation in the name of their political and social beliefs? Bella Reid talks to ...
One hesitates before calling A Tale for the Time Being a “novel of ideas”, which presupposes an imbalance toward themes over character, but it would be impossible to truly enjoy ...
Emma Cooper discusses the theme of transgression in one of her favourite books, MJ Hyland’s This Is How.
We showcase the second winner of LitroTV’s transgression competition, Amy McCallum.
We showcase the first winner of LitroTV’s transgression competition, Ben Norris.
LitroTV kicks off April’s transgression theme with a performance poem from Anna Freeman
Paloma Zamora González tries to be a tolerant person, she really does. But no one likes to be tested. She works hard on her lawn, often in seething, pitiless Florida ...
This time, her parents were home, and she just couldn’t face them. Not right now. Not when the memory of David wiping his semen off her breasts with the shirt ...
McCoy kept swearing. It would be another day off while the cops, coroner and medical examiner spent the day digging like archaeologists in what was supposed to be just another ...
Marie could never explain to herself why she found herself creeping down the stairs one night, wrapped in Neville's dressing gown. From the hallway she could see him, bare-chested, bare-legged ...
The omelet chef sprinkles ashes of my daughter on diced onions and orange bell peppers and beats the eggs with his spatula--a wizard casting a spell with wand coagulated with ...
Massie Road on a cold night in January. I'm sitting in a parked car with a man dressed in black. He's pointing a gloved finger at a semi-detached house a ...
I spent every lesson trying to touch her arm with mine. Finally it became habit, my chair moved closer, our desk seemed smaller. Our arms lay next to each other, ...
That’s when I flipped. It’s a man thing, you can’t take it. Seeing someone else with your woman, with your children. I waited. I waited all through the night. I ...
Welcome to Issue 124 of Litro It’s difficult to define what we mean by transgression. That’s partly because transgression is a relative term – there are some acts and ideas ...
Competition winners- LitroTV had a fantastic response to its first competition, which asked for performance poets to send us an original spoken word piece based on our April theme of ...
