In this story of magical realism, Hill struggles to dismantle a wall full of history and darkness until she finds it is herself that has become undone. Continue ...
Unveiling a mysterious boy’s chilling past, the Tilneys’ Christmas takes a haunting turn. As secrets unravel, a tragic tale connects them to a ghostly presence. Continue Reading The ...
‘Correspondence’ explores the intersection of past and present, art and memory. Join the protagonist as they navigate emails from a mysterious aunt, encounter surreal events in a Slovenian residency, and ...
“You can have this memory, if you want, completely uncorrupted.” On the balcony, two friends talk away the world. Continue Reading From the Balcony
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It makes him feel the same as on the day it happened, but he never cries. Continue Reading Carpet Vandal
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A crooked man comes visiting. Continue Reading A CROOKED MAN’S KNEE
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What happens when a young couple must make a difficult choice together? Continue Reading Lilac Paint | Litro Lab Podcast
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Nigel’s body was stuck in the thick glossy foliage at the bottom of the ravine. No one had found it. He couldn’t pass through from this life to the next ...
HER, a short story about a social media-fuelled obsession with a love rival. Continue Reading HER
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Sally laughs out loud, breathes in the night air then strides forwards, her head held high as she’s assailed by the treacherous rain. Her shoes feel tight, her wig feels ...
The two women are sitting in their beach chairs in the shallow water, low waves and foam lapping at their bare calves… They look to the west, from where the ...
Sometimes I go back in time and meet myself. This time I see myself, fifteen years old, in the basement of my grandparents’ house, cutting the sleeves off a ...
If she’d asked me for the potion on any other day I’d have handed it over, pressed it into her
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In this poetic story, ‘walking with Alice’ on a summer night becomes a trial. Facing the laughs of women and the potential violence of men, often misogynistic and transphobic, the ...
A story of awakening, of self-awareness, a realisation made in the queer underbelly of what seems like the most ‘straight’ environment imaginable. Is Sam exploring the possibilities of gender, or ...
Working as a maid in Thailand, Mahmuda does her best to respect the order of her employers and the conventions of their culture. But what happens when she has to ...
A young trans woman mourns the death of her grandmother, and then deals with the ripple effects of being told to attend the funeral as a boy.
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Bo used a highly specialised mechanical saw to carve tiny bits of a hard polymer into nipple shapes. He had been in his job for a month when Rebecca’s letter ...
In November, the oldest known collection of Arabic short stories, Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange, was finally released in English translation. Xenobe Purvis sees Robert Irwin, ...
I enjoy the journey of writing. I like the bacteria and mess inside the newness of a germ of an idea — being in the thick of it with words ...
