Essays, EssaySaturday

War No More

Join Angela, a devoted cat sanctuary worker, as she writes an obituary for a beloved cat on Christmas eve. Joyful, witty, and touching. Continue Reading War No More

by Angela Townsend • December 16, 2023December 17, 2023

Fiction, FridayFlash

Invisible Wings

Family trauma, China’s turbulent history, and the specter of death. ‘Invisible Wings’: a tale of survival, resilience, and magic. Continue Reading Invisible Wings

by Kevin Brown • December 7, 2023December 7, 2023

Arts & Culture, Fiction, short story

The Appointment

“If I’ll always be happy, won’t happiness lose its value?” A man takes a trip to the doctor and all is not what it seems… Continue Reading The ...

by Eugene Slaven • November 14, 2023November 14, 2023

Arts & Culture, Fiction, short story

Grief Interrupted

“We Americans do not deal well with sorrow.” When COVID stalled the normal processes of grief, how did we all cope? Continue Reading Grief Interrupted

by Veronika Kot • November 10, 2023November 10, 2023

Digital Subscriptions, Litro #184: Memory, Print Issues

Tuscany! Tuscany!

"We were no longer young." GC Perry sets the violent breakdown of a marriage in the warmth and magnificence of Tuscany's countryside. To access this ...

by GC Perry • September 27, 2023September 27, 2023

Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday

Summer of Acceptance

I was sixteen and mesmerized by the graffiti – framed by tunnels, bridges, and walls of industrial buildings. It seemed the only view on an Amtrak train from Springfield, Mass ...

by John Chambers • July 10, 2022July 10, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, StorySunday

DREAMED

A man dreams he is about to die then becomes convinced he will die soon Continue Reading DREAMED

by Clyde Liffey • September 19, 2021September 19, 2021

Fiction, FridayFlash

STEPHEN ANDREWS

A moving portrait of rough-and-tumble Stephen Andrews Continue Reading STEPHEN ANDREWS

by Paul Attmere • August 6, 2021August 13, 2021

Editor's Pick, Fiction, StorySunday

THE UNFORTUNATE BUSINESS OF THE DEAD CHILDREN

An English teacher’s students keep dying Continue Reading THE UNFORTUNATE BUSINESS OF THE DEAD CHILDREN

by William Macbeth • July 11, 2021January 21, 2022

Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday

NYC DNA

On the lengthy strands of our person tangling into the great city Continue Reading NYC DNA

by R. R. Noall • July 10, 2021July 10, 2021

Arts & Culture

Austin

I thought the man was sleeping until I saw his dead stare. The top of his head was gone, leaving a hole ringed by wisps of black hair. ...

by mejohnsonauthor • March 31, 2019May 3, 2019

Fiction

Between Here and Oblivion

He wasn’t supposed to be here. He should be checking on steam cleaners and bottles of solvents, cleaning the debris, clearing the bodies. Bodies… They had always been bodies. Silent ...

by Joemmjr • February 28, 2015February 22, 2015

Arts & Culture

Death Brought to Life at the Met

  These still early years of the twenty-first century have seen a rising fascination for the mourning practices of the nineteenth century. At a time when loved ones are memorialized ...

by Constance Renfrow • December 29, 2014

Fiction, FridayFlash

Those Clear, Unblinking Eyes

He came out of the cell calmly at eight in the morning with nothing to say. The captain had never seen anyone come out of a cell so calmly. The other ...

by Kim Farleigh • February 15, 2013June 3, 2013

Arts & Culture

Death: A self portrait at the Wellcome Collection

One of the most resonating questions I was left pondering over was of representation. In many respects the contemplations of death, the associated images, the rituals and ceremonies built around ...

by Tristam Vivian Adams • February 1, 2013June 4, 2013

Fiction, StorySunday

Promises You Can Keep

Pete leant on the washing machine, catching his breath, looking around. It was a big kitchen. Big and empty and incomplete, caught between one age and another, one owner and ...

by Kevlin Henney • November 25, 2012June 3, 2013

Fiction, StorySunday

Like the Robot in Buck Rogers

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 ...

by Sarah Dobbs • November 11, 2012June 3, 2013