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Tony Donal David me, or, How to make love in 1988
He smells of the day, of work. Proper work. Metal and machinery. Coal. He clears his throat.
The Birthday Party
One husband, two sons. Alive. Limbs and faculties intact. I got away with it?
To all the boys I ever thought I loved but looking back it is an absolute freak show: My Netflix Original
He was the kind of guy you read about in Girlfriend, with that boyband aesthetic.
Unity
Freedom comes at high costs, and requires plenty of responsibility…Latvia learned this the hard way. And it is a lesson, and a price, my adopted home country of the ...
Tasting Notes from an Unqualified Cheese Reviewer
This cheese balances notes of caramel and nuttiness without seeming like it’s trying too hard at either.
Crash: A Sequence of Variations
I yearn to confront the evil head on, which in a way I did since it knocked me out cold, a sudden nothingness
Chasing Sakura: 08. Dance
I was in a foul mood, which the blandness of the place, coupled with the annoyingly present weather like a child incessantly badgering us, did nothing to assuage.
Chasing Sakura: 07. Osaka
As one of the few establishments in Osaka that may possibly have offered a vegetarian option, this restaurant had taken us longer to locate than expected, seeing as Google Maps ...
To Die Under a Great Reaching Tree
Yet now I am here, in this room with metal tables. To make the messiness of bodies easier to clean up
Why I Didn’t Report
I remember telling him three times…Does it still matter? Does it still count?
Chasing Sakura: 06. Farewell
On the one hand, we were happy to walk freely on a narrow path that not too long beforehand would have been heaving with crowds. On the other, we were ...
Black-Tattoo Type Pigmentation
You are attempting to fill an emotional emptiness. Craving enough. Being enough. But self-knowledge does not save. Mara obscures “the knowledge of truth.”
I Was Kissing Someone
When he and I weren’t tangled in his sheets upstairs, his tall, lanky body wrapped around mine, he was reading treatises on physics to me, and poetry, by candlelight in ...
Running like I Never Saw
An unsettling tale that builds to a crescendo to reveal an unexpected ending.
Cerulean
Is that what love is, a thought that your mind made up with its chemicals and its hokum and its voodoo magic?
Chasing Sakura: 05. Ceremony
The first time we saw Gion was in the evening, during a light rain. And what a seductive show it put on. The pink sun diminished between buildings seemingly held ...
Digital Subscription, Litro #172: Addiction, Print Issues
From Dust and Needles – A Memoir
Excerpts from a memoir
Digital Subscription, 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 ...
Chasing Sakura: 04. Faces
The Land of the Rising Sun is also the Land of Many Faces.
This Will Be the Last Time
An addiction to a debauched act brings the narrator to a decisive brink