Excerpts from a memoir
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The Land of the Rising Sun is also the Land of Many Faces. Continue Reading Chasing Sakura: 04. Faces
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Read part one of this series here. Due to the back-and-forth nature of our trip, we gave ourselves only two days in Tokyo before we were scheduled to leave it. ...
The terminal was just a few blocks from our apartment. Often we were the first people on the bus and had it all to ourselves. These were days in the ...
In the first of his column for Litro, debut author Polis Loui Continue Reading Chasing Sakura: 01. Occidentals
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I grew up in North Carolina and Virginia into a religious family. This seems like a redundant statement. People in the south are religious. That’s just how everyone is. God ...
“I’m not an actress. Hello out there—” rapping my knuckles on my head “—anybody listening? I dropped out of acting school. Can you hear me?”
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A personal essay on the love of dogs, horses, birds, goats, dogs … and of all animals. Continue Reading Animal
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Any time I found trouble as a teenager, which happened frequently, my mother warned me that I would wind up like her older sister, my Aunt Beverly.
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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 ...
Memories make us…
Continue Reading Litro # 160: Changes | Remembrance
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The role of the bicycle in personal and political change. Continue Reading Litro # 160: Changes | Growing Younger
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Ask someone this question and the first answer is usually no. Then a pause, a reconsideration. The second answer, usually, is yes.
Have you ever seen a ghost? ...
Now I wish I had called like I promised, I wish I had kept their information safe, I wish I had called the number on the banner instead of my ...
Back when summer holidays meant months off school, I used to be first up in the house. I’d steal down the staircase, recklessly yank those living room curtains apart and ...
“My mum takes me to Staples to buy a desk, it has a drawer that throws itself open, a place to keep files – I have no files. I have ...
“I prayed the night before my cancer diagnosis, and then I prayed again the night after. It was during the darkness of those long months in hospital—robbed of my vitality, ...
Tatyana Movshevich recalls growing up in chemical-ravaged Dzerzhinsk, Russia, and the creative wasteland that exists there. Continue Reading I Am From Dzerzhinsk
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As part of our current Music theme, Marie Gethins recalls the concert that changed her summer. Continue Reading Boston Tattoo
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Linda Fawke recalls perilous flights in and out of Lukla Airport, at the start of the Everest trail. Continue Reading A Dangerous Glimpse of Nepal
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