The inspiration for This Dark Road to Mercy began with a beautiful story my wife told me about her childhood, and this led me to recall a tragic story from ...
“On school trips a long time ago, Meg lagged behind looking at the shadow boxes of the Savannah, the Steppes, the Rainforest, the Plains, the Arctic, complete with real animals, ...
“She sniffed his clothes, rifled through his briefcase and, finding nothing suspicious, decided that the following Thursday she would take a taxi to see with her own eyes where he ...
“For the best retrospectives on professional tennis tournaments, I would usually turn to my grandmother.” Continue Reading Family: Conversations with Nana
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“They’d fight in French because they’re French Canadian and they do their best fighting in French. You wouldn’t get the words, but you’d get the cursing, the verbal slaps, the ...
An unexpected reminder that siblings have a life of their own. Continue Reading Cable
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Absence and neglect in rural America. Continue Reading Baby Love
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Adult siblings grant experimental access to their mother’s heart. Continue Reading and one last time, from the heart
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One man stands alone in the wake of a disaster. Continue Reading Hotline to Almighty
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What would you be willing to sacrifice in order to survive? Continue Reading Last Great Blizzard
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A heartfelt plea to the Universe. Continue Reading Safe Keeping
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I try and write with as much power as I can muster, and somehow this always sends me back to family stories. I suppose we all have family, family defines ...
Dear Reader, The festive season is upon us again: a month of tinsel, baubles, fake Santa beards and contrived TV specials. Whatever you’re celebrating this year – Christmas, Hanukkah or ...
Featuring stories from Laura McKenna, Jesmyn Ward, Rebecca Swirsky, David Ford, Theresa Coulter, Holly Corfield Carr, and an interview with Matt Haig. Continue Reading Litro #131: Family
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Soon, Litro will publish its much-anticipated Family issue. Lauren Van Schaik Smith, attending the photographic exhibition Family Politics at Bankside’s Jerwood Space, observed how even that most familiar topic could ...
Join the discussion on our current Book Club pick, a tender and terrifying portrait of innocence, and the evil that threatens it… Continue Reading This Dark Road to ...
I wondered if I was with Jesus before I was born and had time to do bad things but the Sunday school teacher glared at me and said such questions ...
I nudge a stack of beer cans and glass bottles with the tip of my shoe and a cloud of tiny flies rises. Then I notice the food scabbing the ...
Nan may as well have been dead. She was on the sofabed in the front room. Sprawled, but rigid. Her hands were claw-like, yellowed and scaly. The room was cloudy ...
