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Ugly in yellow: Memory as fallible
Finding your own “reality” in memories of childhood trauma.
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Book Review: Map of Another Town, by M.F.K. Fisher
Best known for her food writing, in Map of Another Town the American writer M.F.K. Fisher takes us on a virtual tour of the French town of Aix-en-Provence.
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Giants
They are your earliest memory. Beaked noses. Hair like clouds.
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A Boy in Wolf River
A young boy loses a part of himself to a wild river.
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Editor's Pick, Litro: Arts & Culture
Nigerian Teens creating amazing SF movies.
A collective of Nigerian teens afrofuturist filmmakers have created The Critics Company a collective making incredible, science fiction movies with camerawork from old, damaged mobile phones and VFX generated ...
Digital Subscription, Editor's Pick, Litro #172: Addiction, Print Issues
The Body is a Battlefield
Women, from a young age, are conditioned to be the diplomats, the carers, the ones who absorb the blame. And so a woman who is distressed might stage a silent ...
the TOWer
All gone. All quiet. A far distant grus grus then silence. He chews on, chews over his sense of estrangement, his speech now unconfident, self-conscious, swollen crumb to his tongue, ...
Editor's Pick, Litro: Arts & Culture
Book Review: Adèle, by Leïla Slimani
A brilliant and troubling portrait of female sex addiction from the bestselling author of Lullaby
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Editor's Pick, Litro #174: Freedom, Print Issues
All the Freedom Privilege Allows
“I’m tired of talking about race,” a white male friend said to me. “We’re all equal, we all get the same opportunities; we all got the same rights now.” ...
Litro #174: Freedom, Print Issues
The Freedom of Forgiveness
Did I want to find out? When my sister was killed, it broke my family – both its individual members and the larger whole.
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Mr. Cosby Made Me Do It
Her name is Loretta, and she lives at the end of the road in the house by the pond, on Rambling Lane.
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In Defiance of the Gods
Do it then, you fuck. Fuck you, you think as you lean into the wind and throttle down hard, gunning the bike just feet from the glistening blue Maserati’s rear ...
The Importance of Voice in Writing
Voice is not just about style or a distinctive style, it is inseparable from the writing itself.
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Do not swallow that pill
You’ll drive around the roads of your hometown with their quaint names like River and Church, long black streets with a yellow middle pulling you in and spitting you out ...
The Perils
I don’t remember the kid’s name; the only impression he made on me was his face: scabbed over, crusted with dried blood all across his chin. ...
Regeneration
An artist labours towards truth in her work
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One Night Stand
I can never remember. When I wake up, I mean. In the dream, I can. It’s always the same one. –From the Archives
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Chasing Sakura: 10. School
We had, however, not experienced a moment’s error in Japan’s transport schedules – so far.
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On a Sweet River
He returned some drops of water from the jug to its source, the creek that ran to the river, and touched each banana tree while looking at the moon. ...
Catholic
In the dark of night she could hear the distant murmurings of a world beyond, a world that was neither here nor there.
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