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This issue of Litro explores a theme close to Litro’s heart, indeed essential to our very genesis: travel and adventure. Perhaps you don’t think of your daily commute in such terms but Galician writer Luisa Castro manages to take a …

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It was written in my diary for the seventh of July, the day I’d be thirty-five: change chair.
So that the group of chairs sheltering the dining-table didn’t clash, that brown chair had to be red. But it had been …

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Every night, after she left, he’d fall asleep in a different spot: on the sofa, in an armchair in the living-room, on the mat on the balcony like some homeless bum. Every morning, he made a point of going out …

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CK Stead
Lovely for the long ago

child in the night

to hear the huge rain

beating on iron.

No fibre-glass muffle -

only that raw rough

sleep-inducing

din.

We’ve eaten the …

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