Only after the tanks had rolled into the capital, and the intractable president had been hanged, did the officers of the occupying force relax enough to enjoy the spring sun ...
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Someone has already been sick, somewhere. I can smell it. It’s not on me, the smell. How long do I have left? He won’t stop at every stop – he’ll ...
I strained to identify flaws, anomalies, patterns in her biography; anything that would point, however subtly, to when and why her fear of elevators began. Continue Reading Transference
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Mostly we take, but sometimes, Buckman, we have to give. Continue Reading Junk Chamber
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Without our secrets, we did not have a body. Without our secrets, we did not need a body. Continue Reading What We Saw
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214 – Theodicy God is good. Bad things happen. Both of these things can be and often are true. But why does He let them happen? She remembers reading the ...
You fail to see it coming. It’s always zombie humans or dogs, or even a god-forsaken crow. A fish you wouldn’t expect. Not while taking a selfie, knee-deep in the ...
You are fourteen when your dad moves the family halfway across the country to a place called River View. The name is a broken promise: your flat looks out onto ...
a set somewhere hidden in Hollywood kept out of sight not because the filming was a flop no because it worked out only too well and has somehow in a ...
There was something incongruous about the man’s back. My eyes followed him around the bookshop. He was slim, of medium height, dressed in beige, classic-cut mackintosh, and charcoal trousers. Black, ...
“The more resolutely you plumb the question, ‘Who or what am I?’ – the more unavoidable is the realisation that you are nothing…apart from everything else.” -Alan W. Watts Forty-one. ...
On finding oneself Continue Reading Kali’s Tongue
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Ruth Gilligan in conversation about her award-winning novel The Butchers Continue Reading RUTH GILLIGAN IN CONVERSATION
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Menstruation strains a relationship. Continue Reading I DREAM IN PINK
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A letter to a former self living in an easier past. Continue Reading DEAR ME | LITRO LAB PODCAST
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A new ghost figures out the rules of the game. Continue Reading GHOST WORLD PROBLEMS
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A mother must acknowledge the passionate partnership of her daughter Continue Reading Cellular
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They’re closing this magic space of dust and light: the last nights, after months of fighting, of a Soho bar. Continue Reading Closing Night
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A fashion photographer remembers her start in the business, in a story examining the nature of success, the illusions we believe in and the boundaries which we contain ourselves within. ...
