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Crime does look profitable, these days! Never have we had such a torrential or varied response from would-be Litro contributors.

Valerie O’Riordan’s short ‘The Explosion of Josiah Bounderby’ will knock you for six, while Kevin Brown’s ‘Odds …

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An innovative and groundbreaking poetry show written and performed by Murray Lachlan Young – a mixture of poetry, stand-up comedy, storytelling and a touch of panto make for a hilarious and positive route to showing children that poetry can be …

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ah, Merryman,

a fighter on the docks,

killed a man while they were unloading

bananas.

I mean the man he killed

clubbed him first

from behind

with an anchor chain

(something about a woman)

and we all circled around

while…

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Of all the affairs that Sherlock Holmes investigated, none was stranger nor more frightening than that of The Giant Rat of Sumatra. Holmes referred to it in the case of The Sussex Vampire as “a story for which the world …

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