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The bitting for the blade
Something lost, a lying child and a posion child in “The bitting for the blade” by Han Smith Continue Reading The bitting for the blade
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Stranger In Winter
A lyrical account of the immigrant experience in America.
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The Code Red Drill Generation
“Innocence ended: the fight for gun control in a land where guns are valued more than children’s lives”. Continue Reading The Code Red Drill Generation
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Ways of Being Black
I was in elementary school when one of our family friends’ sons married an African American. The news was delivered to my parents with the same gravitas and despair that ...
Embracing The Long Goodbye: The Art Of Grief Environmentalism
What does it mean to linger in the face of extinction? How do we gather that immensity into our short lifespans? Continue Reading Embracing The Long Goodbye: The ...
The Visitation
The night was peaceful, the kind of peace one would never find in the city. I understand what you mean when you say that you miss the stillness of Pahargarh, ...
Ridley’s Games: Angry at the Southwark Playhouse
Angry is an anthology of monologues by Philip Ridley, perhaps Britain’s most distinctive living playwright. Continue Reading Ridley’s Games: Angry at the Southwark Playhouse
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The First to Leave
I’m too big for the seat. The flight attendant nods and drops the extension in my lap. I snap it into place. My elbow cramps the Englishman’s. I have an ...
Coda
She loved music, and her favourite melodies moved me deeply. When I was a child she sang me lullabies about….fledgling birds who mourned the nest they’d lost in a storm, ...
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Litro #166: After Dark | Editor’s Letter
Litro Magazine’s November 2017 issue is filled with stories about what goes on after darkness has fallen, when we think no one’s watching, or after-hours, when everything’s shut. ...
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The Beautiful Coffin
“Go away!” I said. I looked at him, and although I knew he was different, he might still act like them. He’d have told me something and when I disagreed, ...
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Black Moons
“It’s so nice to feel good,” she said, and touched herself while she sucked his cock. Strewn over the table were the implements of their game, which had been her ...
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Todo es de Color – Children of Catalunya
A charming lively plaza in el barrio de Gracia, behind a lone lit window on the third floor, a nineteen-year-old girl smokes a cigarette.
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In the Penal Colony: Inside Pussy Riot at the Saatchi Gallery
I was kneeling handcuffed on the floor of a church in a knitted red balaclava – not my average Thursday evening by a long shot. Continue Reading ...
Starting Again
It was an ant exploring my fingers. A lovely companion to indifference. The extreme hourglass of its shiny black body corseted in perfectly with the dress code. ...
The Glass Castle: How To Make a Successful Book-to-Film Adaptation
Too much misery toughens the heart, whereas the best art softens it. Jeannette Walls’s The Glass Castle is art of the latter kind. Continue Reading The Glass Castle: ...
The God Occlusion
If the conversation stays with ‘God’ – and it seldom does – where it goes can only be based on what people understand by the word ‘God’. Continue ...
An Arab in London, An Englishman in Baghdad
In Baghdad, there is a street that is famous for its many book shops and it’s named after the greatest Arab poet of all time, Al-Mutanabbi. Continue ...
Divinest Genius Or Greatest Fool
‘Anyone moderately familiar with the rigours of composition will not need to be told the story in detail; how he wrote and it seemed good; read and it seemed vile; ...
All The World’s A Page
At Shakespeare & Company in Paris, myths and legends reside quietly beside an ocean of books lining those fabled shelves. Continue Reading All The World’s A Page
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