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Bitter Lake
She walks alone like a ghost and the wind goes through the grass and trees and whispers and is gone. Continue Reading Bitter Lake
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Love in the Time of Corona: Covid-19 Diaries
Can’t remember when a week last felt like a month, a month like the distant past. Continue Reading Love in the Time of Corona: Covid-19 Diaries
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The Happiest Person in the World
The morning after his birthday night out, Cam confides in an estranged friend over his changed expectations and perceived failure in life on reaching the landmark age of thirty. There ...
Please, My Watermelon
He is waiting for him. There are no phones. This is 2005. Continue Reading Please, My Watermelon
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Zellige
A story about a woman recovering from an ectopic pregnancy in Morocco. Continue Reading Zellige
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Learning Together
An autobiographical essay, that moves between past and present, told by a young woman who describes the aftermath of the 29th of November 2019 stabbing of two people at a ...
Play Pretend
I knew something was wrong with Polly the day she said the sun was dead. Continue Reading Play Pretend
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There’s No Prize for Good Girls
Once alone, you wedge a cigarette in your mouth, the room still your domain for the next fifteen minutes. Because it’s paid for the hour. Because you deserve it. ...
My Marina
Marina didn’t just want my words, she wanted touch. In public. Kissing, Embracing. Airports. Library PDA. And not just anywhere but here – where people assumed I was a gypsy ...
Covid-19 Blog, Editor's Pick, The Litro Blog
The Appearance of Blood
The unimagined victims of Covid-19. Continue Reading The Appearance of Blood
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Feminist dating for women in their forties
I’m not sure what I want out of dating and my inner feminist is nervous. Continue Reading Feminist dating for women in their forties
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10 of the best theatre and dance to stream now while in lockdown.
10 of the best theatre and dance to stream now while in lockdown. Continue Reading 10 of the best theatre and dance to stream now while in lockdown.
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Editor's Pick, ff, Flash Friday
Live and let live
How to deal with inconsiderate neighbours. In one chilling step Continue Reading Live and let live
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The Gift
The thing is I’m actually the real deal, not one of those fakes or tricksters who prey on people, who take advantage of them and make a few dollars ...
Anton
Behind our parents’ dresser, my sister finds a photograph along with a bunch of old papers in an orange plastic folder.
“Oh my God,” she says. “It’s Anton.” ...
Editor's Pick, Homepage, The Litro Blog
Calling All Performance writers and artists!
Social distancing, self-isolation, lockdown – are words we now use every day. We want to hear your stories about isolation. It might be self-imposed, it might be enforced, maybe it’s ...
(M)Other Tongue
A familiar shame sidles into the room as I grasp at my meagre store of Kannada and Tulu. My grandmother and I muddle our way through a multilingual conversation that’s ...
A Few Words on Lockdown in Northern Italy
I keep thinking ahead to when this will be a memory. The worst spring. The spring when the blossoms and the birds were oblivious to our cries. Continue ...
Porphyria
I released the tube and let the blood seep into my hand, feeling my skin prick with warmth, awakening the euphoria. Leaving was a lone thing. Porphyria on her own. ...
Scourings
Survival, on the long march into the hostile land crossed by forefathers Continue Reading Scourings
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