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Fiction, StorySunday

Ace

The first time I tried to deepen our kisses, she pulled back uncertainly. ... Keep Reading
Essays

Little America

A young woman grapples with loss and lack of direction in her life while driving across ... Keep Reading
FridayFlash

LIGHTING THE MATCH

All that winter we read Hannah Arendt, we read Men in Dark Times. ... Keep Reading
Essays

Good Friday, 2020

An essay about the absurdities and beauties and strangeness of the COVID-19 pandemic. ... Keep Reading
Fiction, StorySunday

Perfect Hair Day

All Val could see from the back of the conference room was row after row of ... Keep Reading
Essays

M and M

“John? Ah hate to bother you. Ah’m callin from the ICU. They’re going to cut off ... Keep Reading
Fiction, StorySunday

And my life unfolds

A story that explores patriarchy and how it affects a woman’s life. Set in Assam, India. ... Keep Reading
Arts & Culture, Friday Flash

ARIANE

There’s this bizarro technique my doctor’s urging. It’s got a bunch of scientific terms that just ... Keep Reading
Uncategorised

Dear Galactic Living (From the Dystopian Letters)

For our pastime we go to the Zero-G Room and do a lot of fun things. ... Keep Reading
Fiction, StorySunday

Fry Person

On paper, Arman was not unlike the other applicants. His face, just like the others, was ... Keep Reading
Essays

Things Behind the Sun

I smelled the signs of trouble.

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Friday Flash

FISH

After eight weeks at home, my daughter alternated between lethargy and irritability. Between sleeping and meltdowns, ... Keep Reading
Arts & Culture, Essays

Interiors

You are so beautiful it kills me, I said. I’m not, love, he said. Perhaps on ... Keep Reading
Fiction, StorySunday

Strange Waters

Mom says her father was an arsonist. She told me when I was eight. I sat ... Keep Reading
Essays

Can’t You Do Something About This?

First, let me say of course I’m worried about all of it: the global warming, the ... Keep Reading
Friday Flash

IT WASN’T FOR ME

It’s the kind of intimacy usually shared by people who are fucking. Not mother and daughter. ... Keep Reading
Fiction, StorySunday

When Blankoids Sing They Sound Like Elvis

During the winter of ’98, I think I was in love or obsessed with Mother Teresa. ... Keep Reading
Essays

euphoria

A person comes to terms with the communal experience of their gender. Acknowledging how they feel ... Keep Reading
Friday Flash

CUTTING TREES

My brother and I are surgeons. We spend our days in the woods by our home, ... Keep Reading
Fiction, StorySunday

Blood

Set during the EEE outbreak that gripped the Michigan region, a young man who, years after ... Keep Reading
Essays

I Want You to Know That I Was Hot Too

A Commentary on the #MeAt20 trend on Twitter which saw people posting photos of themselves at ... Keep Reading
Friday Flash

THE “JESUS LOVES ME” PAWN SHOP STORIES

The pearls had already seen much catastrophe. They were happy in the Jesus Loves Me pawn ... Keep Reading
Arts & Culture, The Litro Blog

Dear Rap Music (from the Dystopian Letters)

You started surveying in New York amongst poor Blacks who brought their blues, jazz, and spirituals ... Keep Reading
Essays

Elevtheria!

An American kid discovering Greece.

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Friday Flash

GOING TO THE OWLS

It starts with a girl— like you and me she walked these streets once. Right here, ... Keep Reading
Fiction, StorySunday

Grafted

Before the sun rises, a farmer must tell his son he is adopted. Whilst they attempt ... Keep Reading
Arts & Culture, Essays, Travel&Lifestyle

Rawhead and Bloody Bones

“A monster that lives in a cave up the road,” Evans said. “He looks in the ... Keep Reading
Fiction, StorySunday

A Dream

Maybe then she could stand on her tippy-toes and pull down the cables with both hands, ... Keep Reading
Arts & Culture, essays, Essays

The Journey into Sacred Profanity: A Colorado Dance Troupe’s Mission of Empowerment

At first blush, a chapel might seem like an odd venue for a scene like this. ... Keep Reading
Fiction, StorySunday

Situation

…he looks out at a huge garden, nine thirty in the morning, caffe latte in hand. ... Keep Reading
essays, Essays

Mom Mazin’

“Have you lost your virginity yet?” my mom asked in her usual impassioned tone as she ... Keep Reading
Arts & Culture

Dear Africa (from the Dystopian Letters)

With flashes from the camera phones incessant, the tourists take photo after photo of us, our ... Keep Reading
Arts & Culture, Essays, The Litro Blog

Dear Corporate State (from the Dystopian Letters)

We ride the trains incessantly, and they in reality go nowhere. They circle the 500 square ... Keep Reading
essays, Essays

Rome Suppressed

Translated by Lucy Rand. I start to walk… I walk. I always walk when I need ... Keep Reading
Arts & Culture, Essays, The Litro Blog

Dear Pandemic (from the Dystopian Letters)

Everything is closed. The offices that tower to the sky in the skyscrapers, the schools, churches, ... Keep Reading
Fiction, StorySunday

Separation

“He took another deep, soulful breath. The smells were vivid, they carried with them a cascade ... Keep Reading
essays, Essays

Prozac and Presence

Prozac made me cisgender, I say to my therapist inside of her bright blue office-box, barely ... Keep Reading
Art, Arts & Culture, Technology and Arts Issue

Art & Technology: Spring 2020: Editor’s letter.

Art across the globe is being influenced more and more by technology; or is it that ... Keep Reading
Fiction

Neighbor Cat

The fair is crowded. The fair is noisy. My anxiety level is skyrocketing. We wade with ... Keep Reading
essays, Essays

Coming of Age on a Day of Rage

A story of how a peak moment for me as a parent was marred by an ... Keep Reading
Fiction, StorySunday

The story of my first love

I first saw her at a book burning. It was her eyes. That wild orange they ... Keep Reading
essays, Essays

The Road that Leads Back Home

A writer arrives at the definition of home through her journeys around Nigeria. ... Keep Reading
Fiction

The Writing’s on the Wall

A journalist returns to the graffiti scene of his youth when a mysterious tag appears on ... Keep Reading
Fiction, StorySunday

Still Life

I shouldn’t be telling you any of this, Carl, but I know I can trust you. ... Keep Reading
Uncategorized

Cinnamon rolls and racists

Je confess! Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you. — John Ashbery ... Keep Reading
Print Issues, Technology and Arts Issue, Uncategorised

A Lack of Understanding: Storytelling for Robots

So whenever I drive past King’s and see a group of Chinese tourists, I know I ... Keep Reading
Fiction, Print Issues, Technology and Arts Issue, Uncategorised

The Representation of Augmented Reality in Fiction

Science fiction reflects our world, extrapolating our hopes and fears in a distant setting. ... Keep Reading
Print Issues, Technology and Arts Issue, Uncategorised

Art and Algorithms: The Work of Manfred Mohr by Charlotte Kent

…there is another side to algorithms epitomized in the art works of Manfred Mohr. ... Keep Reading
Art, Arts & Culture, Print Issues, Technology and Arts Issue

Five-Hundred Year Anniversary: Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre

It seems fitting that the current Louvre exhibition has surrounded the Renaissance man who saw himself ... Keep Reading
Arts & Culture, Interviews, Print Issues, Technology and Arts Issue

Interview with Virtual Reality artist, Rachel Rossin

Rachel Rossin is a multi-media and installation artist based in New York City ... Keep Reading
Arts & Culture, Interviews, Print Issues, Technology and Arts Issue

Interview with multidisciplinary artist Nwando Ebizie

At the heart of the piece is Ebizie’s experience of a rare neurological condition that was ... Keep Reading
Fiction

Do you love me?

Ben just called me through a third party and asked if I was still his girlfriend ... Keep Reading
Arts & Culture

Neo-slavery in Italy? The Controversial Status of Africa’s Migrants in the Boot

Italy’s race relations between white Italians and its African migrants and black Italians, while not stellar ... Keep Reading
Arts & Culture

The Email that I Just Sent my Psychiatrist was a Tour de Force of Sanity and Grace: On Reading from the Sent Folder

Dear Dr. Hanover, my Psychiatrist, I wrote you an email just now that was most certainly ... Keep Reading
Fiction

Playing By Ear

Soon Mother starts insisting that a tiny fairy lodges there in her middle ear, alongside the ... Keep Reading
Litro Desire Issue, Print Issues

Unmastered Desires

I didn’t want to be a victim to my desire, to the legacies of white supremacy ... Keep Reading
Litro Desire Issue, Print Issues, Uncategorised

Litro Desire Issue: Summer

Cover design Noa Gravesky Table of Contents Summer 2019 The Editor’s Letter Eric Akoto Guest Editor’s ... Keep Reading
Litro Desire Issue, Print Issues

Complicated Blues

The way she smiled at him nearly made me jealous. Even though I didn’t know who ... Keep Reading
Litro Desire Issue, Print Issues

A Good Mask by Nadia Owusu

Name, shame, secrete, wash, wipe clean, wring dry, sanitize. What I can’t expunge, I conceal. I ... Keep Reading
Art, Arts & Culture

Four Dope Queens

Through the platform of ANOKO, Obialo has promoted a plethora of African women in New York ... Keep Reading

Ace
Little America
LIGHTING THE MATCH
Good Friday, 2020
Perfect Hair Day
M and M
And my life unfolds
ARIANE
Dear Galactic Living (From the Dystopian Letters)
Fry Person
Things Behind the Sun
FISH
Interiors
Strange Waters
Can’t You Do Something About This?
IT WASN’T FOR ME
When Blankoids Sing They Sound Like Elvis
euphoria
CUTTING TREES
Blood
I Want You to Know That I Was Hot Too
THE “JESUS LOVES ME” PAWN SHOP STORIES
Dear Rap Music (from the Dystopian Letters)
Elevtheria!
GOING TO THE OWLS
Grafted
Rawhead and Bloody Bones
A Dream
The Journey into Sacred Profanity: A Colorado Dance Troupe’s Mission of Empowerment
Situation
Mom Mazin’
Dear Africa (from the Dystopian Letters)
Dear Corporate State (from the Dystopian Letters)
Rome Suppressed
Dear Pandemic (from the Dystopian Letters)
Separation
Prozac and Presence
Art & Technology: Spring 2020: Editor’s letter.
Neighbor Cat
Coming of Age on a Day of Rage
The story of my first love
The Road that Leads Back Home
The Writing’s on the Wall
Still Life
Cinnamon rolls and racists
A Lack of Understanding: Storytelling for Robots
The Representation of Augmented Reality in Fiction
Art and Algorithms: The Work of Manfred Mohr by Charlotte Kent
Five-Hundred Year Anniversary: Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
Interview with Virtual Reality artist, Rachel Rossin
Interview with multidisciplinary artist Nwando Ebizie
Do you love me?
Neo-slavery in Italy? The Controversial Status of Africa’s Migrants in the Boot
The Email that I Just Sent my Psychiatrist was a Tour de Force of Sanity and Grace: On Reading from the Sent Folder
Playing By Ear
Unmastered Desires
Litro Desire Issue: Summer
Complicated Blues
A Good Mask by Nadia Owusu
Four Dope Queens

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