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Ode to our open-minded, modern young men
Forgive them, for they like their women dead Continue Reading Ode to our open-minded, modern young men
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A Writing Group, and Horses
What, a friend who came to visit me asked, is a writing group?
It’s just like a barn, I said. Horses. Continue Reading A Writing Group, and Horses
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The Card Players: A Noctambulist’s Guide to Florence
For me, the colony of lights that speckle the midnight city is always preferable to the monarchic blaze of the summer sky. Continue Reading The Card Players: ...
Nothing Personal
My grandfather and his best friend made the trip to the coast to find that the only work to be had was picking fruit for ten cents an hour. ...
The Birthday Party
One husband, two sons. Alive. Limbs and faculties intact. I got away with it? Continue Reading The Birthday Party
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Unity
Freedom comes at high costs, and requires plenty of responsibility…Latvia learned this the hard way. And it is a lesson, and a price, my adopted home country of the United ...
Two Landscapes and a Dismal Science
I had taken some thirty years ago – a walk that had stunned and disturbed me at the time, but which I had since almost forgotten… Continue Reading ...
Dear Singapore
It was thirteen years ago that I set foot on your shores, as a starry-eyed, newly married, first-time expat. Continue Reading Dear Singapore
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Chasing Sakura: 08. Dance
I was in a foul mood, which the blandness of the place, coupled with the annoyingly present weather like a child incessantly badgering us, did nothing to assuage. ...
Rage
“That car’s just too big for you, love, you can’t handle it.” Continue Reading Rage
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Digital Subscription, Litro #173: Comedy, Print Issues
Locker-Room Talk
Among the many acts forbidden were talking in the locker room, talking in the halls between classes, and talking in the cafeteria until a nun shook a hand bell, a ...
Digital Subscription, Litro #173: Comedy, Print Issues
A Broke Girl’s Guide to Atlantic City
Your roommate will see you binge-watching Netflix on the couch, spooning your dog. She will tell you that you’re leaving for Atlantic City at nine that night.
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Mourning is the Sight of a Blank Crossword Puzzle
Nasalized vowels. Rolled r’s. They seemed to widen the distance between me and my family. I wanted to go home. Continue Reading Mourning is the Sight of a ...
Thimble, Thimble, Let’s Be Quick
Both are meant to protect us, but at what cost? Continue Reading Thimble, Thimble, Let’s Be Quick
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Chasing Sakura: 07. Osaka
As one of the few establishments in Osaka that may possibly have offered a vegetarian option, this restaurant had taken us longer to locate than expected, seeing as Google Maps ...
Hands That Do Not Forget
Haven’t you heard of concealer for those dark circles, and by God, what a miracle that men will even speak to you. “I bet they like your bit of crazy, ...
Interview with Lior Elefant, director of the Israeli film festival, Lethal Lesbian
An interview with Lior Elefant, head of the Israeli Women in Film and Television Forum, and Program Director of the Israeli film festival, Lethal Lesbian.
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To Die Under a Great Reaching Tree
Yet now I am here, in this room with metal tables. To make the messiness of bodies easier to clean up Continue Reading To Die Under a Great ...
Book Review: We Were Strangers, an anthology of new stories inspired by Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures, edited by Richard Hirst
All this misjudged levity is really an attempt to sublimate the subject matter of the record that inspired this collection: depression. Continue Reading Book Review: We Were Strangers, ...
Why I Didn’t Report
I remember telling him three times…Does it still matter? Does it still count? Continue Reading Why I Didn’t Report
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