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Chasing Sakura: 01. Occidentals
In the first of his column for Litro, debut author Polis Loui
Cabaret Dada
A man marries a performance artist who dreams of pissing on Maria Abramović’s grave.
Donald Trump Is the Andy Warhol of American Politics
Donald Trump Is the Andy Warhol of American Politics
Talha
A frightening tale of motherhood…..
Burial
A girl’s first encounter with death in today’s #StorySunday, “Burial” by Caroline Griego…
The Price of Her Desire: The Writer at the Almeida Theatre
Why would men not try to understand what women want? That is the question Ella Hickson sets out to answer in her latest play The Writer.
Yakshi
A fallen goddess haunts a priest in today’s #StorySunday, Yakshi by Susheela Menon
Boys
She lights candles and sets out all the plates. She summons every ghost and makes them promise they will come with her wherever she goes even if it means having ...
The bitting for the blade
Something lost, a lying child and a posion child in “The bitting for the blade” by Han Smith
Stranger In Winter
A lyrical account of the immigrant experience in America.
The Code Red Drill Generation
“Innocence ended: the fight for gun control in a land where guns are valued more than children’s lives”.
Ways of Being Black
I was in elementary school when one of our family friends’ sons married an African American. The news was delivered to my parents with the same gravitas and despair that ...
Embracing The Long Goodbye: The Art Of Grief Environmentalism
What does it mean to linger in the face of extinction? How do we gather that immensity into our short lifespans?
The Visitation
The night was peaceful, the kind of peace one would never find in the city. I understand what you mean when you say that you miss the stillness of Pahargarh, ...
Ridley’s Games: Angry at the Southwark Playhouse
Angry is an anthology of monologues by Philip Ridley, perhaps Britain’s most distinctive living playwright.
The First to Leave
I’m too big for the seat. The flight attendant nods and drops the extension in my lap. I snap it into place. My elbow cramps the Englishman’s. I have an ...
Coda
She loved music, and her favourite melodies moved me deeply. When I was a child she sang me lullabies about….fledgling birds who mourned the nest they’d lost in a storm, ...
Letters from the Editor, Print Issues
Litro #166: After Dark | Editor’s Letter
Litro Magazine’s November 2017 issue is filled with stories about what goes on after darkness has fallen, when we think no one’s watching, or after-hours, when everything’s shut.
The Beautiful Coffin
“Go away!” I said. I looked at him, and although I knew he was different, he might still act like them. He’d have told me something and when I disagreed, ...
Black Moons
“It’s so nice to feel good,” she said, and touched herself while she sucked his cock. Strewn over the table were the implements of their game, which had been her ...