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They’re Just … Here
“Up to a billion birds die in collisions with glass each year in the United States.” Continue Reading They’re Just … Here
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Taiki-chū no chinmoku (The Silence of Waiting)
Masuyo was married for fifty-eight years to the same man. She’d hated him for fifty-seven years. Continue Reading Taiki-chū no chinmoku (The Silence of Waiting)
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Digital Subscription, Letters from the Editor, Litro #164: Senses
Letter from the editor: Litro #164: Senses
For this issue, we sought sensual stories for a heady summer issue – gorgeous vistas (or eyesores), sweet scents (or foul stenches), delicious flavours (or ones that make you retch), ...
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Con Artists
At home I was stubborn and irrational, rejecting all the evidence that would contradict the one belief in which I had invested myself.
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Fiction, Litro #163: Alternative Facts
The Storyteller
A world where we are not truly free to make our own stories, but must tell the stories we were taught to tell…
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Fiction, Litro #163: Alternative Facts
The Operation
She wants to fold back upon herself too, like petals…
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The Inaugural Address
A rough translation of portions of Hitler’s speeches (1933 to 1938) as they relate to Trump’s inaugural (and other) speeches.
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Trump in B&W
Trump in Black and White is a collection of one hundred of the many, many statements he made pre- and post-election. This is the POTUS’s actual voice taken from speeches, ...
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Hard Sell
October 29, 2011. Somewhere along Kabul’s infamous Darulaman Road, a Taliban suicide bomber rams a vehicle packed with explosives into the side of an American military armoured bus.
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Arts & Culture, Litro #163: Alternative Facts
Writing in the Realm of Alternative Facts
These days who are we to resist the temptation to cash in on this sudden cultural foray back into the world of alternativism. After all, fiction is fact! It would ...
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Litro #162: A Literary Highlife | Foreword
Dear Reader, Every year, Litro publishes international editions focusing on a different parts of the globe. In 2016, we had an issue dedicated to Cuba, and one highlighting South Asian ...
Litro #162: Literary Highlife
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Litro #162: Literary Highlife | Transcripts of the Social Imaginary in Accra: Beyond Oxford Street
To get to the proper understanding of the social imaginary from looking at the street, however, a number of things have to be borne in mind. The first that Accra’s ...
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Litro #162: Literary Highlife | The Ferrymen
Taxicabs are everywhere in Ghana, and replete in the cities, the drivers play an indispensable role in Ghanaian society, and in our cities that have no regular transport services, this ...
Litro #162: Literary Highlife | Spit
January has been teaching me
that hurt can come from even the most comforting spaces. Continue Reading Litro #162: Literary Highlife | Spit
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Litro #162: Literary Highlife | The Dark Haunts Nigeria
Do not blame us for filling out
churches, we are praying against the things
the dark attracts. Continue Reading Litro #162: Literary Highlife | The Dark Haunts Nigeria
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Litro #162: Literary Highlife | Interview: Jenn Nkiru
Director Jenn Nkiru’s En Vogue, an experimental, high-concept, bold short film documenting the potent vitality of New York’s voguing and ballroom subculture, marked the arrival of an exciting new voice. ...
Litro #162: Literary Highlife | Charcoal
I know it is strange, perhaps even unheard of, for an old woman like me to do this. Fingers will be pointed and tongues will be wagged till they nearly ...
Love Letter To London
You annoy me sometimes, but still, I’m drawn to you like the magnetic north. Like iron filings in a school physics lesson; fragments of me arc this way and that, ...
The Forgotten Hill Station
David Berry recalls a trip to the Himalayan town of Dalhousie 40 years ago. Continue Reading The Forgotten Hill Station
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