Literature & Leftovers

Your new midday ritual: a short story posted weekdays @ 12 to enjoy with your lunch (whatever you happen to have crammed in your tupperware)

📚by @bethrosewatt

[Literature & Leftovers @LitAndLeftovers]

Thanks to a very sweet suggestion, we now have a Ko-fi!

Obviously no obligation at all whatsoever even a little, but if you enjoy Lit & Leftovers and want to help support the project, you can now do so here! 😊

https://t.co/0OAQIxWjGW

[Which? @WhichUK]

⚠ CAT FOOD RECALL | An outbreak of a rare condition that causes severe illness in cats has led to a voluntary recall of multiple brands of cat food ➡ https://t.co/Q8u80I4mDV

Please share with any cat owners you know!

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Shops recall type of dry cat food over potential link to a rare and fatal cat disease https://t.co/9zE3BYMjIr

[Literature & Leftovers @LitAndLeftovers]

@SelectedWorksOf So sorry this happened to you, HUGE solidarity. Call those fuckers out if you feel comfortable doing so ❤️

[Literature & Leftovers @LitAndLeftovers]

Hi guys! L&L will be taking a quick hiatus, as your dear editor is moving house in a week or so and is so stressed she could vomit!

We'll be back in early-mid June, from a new location (literally around the corner from here!) & plenty of new stories to read with your sarnie x

[Literature & Leftovers @LitAndLeftovers]

[tw: weight loss]

I really enjoyed the excerpt from Andrea Bajani's IF YOU KEPT A RECORD OF SINS, deftly translated by Elizabeth Harris, in @GrantaMag. Published by @archipelagobks, it has been voted one of @AppleBooks' best reads for March 2021!

https://t.co/sWettlRVhj

[Literature & Leftovers @LitAndLeftovers]

I can't wait to get my hands on a copy of #EthanRutherford's #FarthestSouth, but my hunger is partially sated by this magical snippet from this week's #RecommendedReading, courtesy of @ElectricLit.

Block out some time and get lost in the foxes' den: https://t.co/fmmZdncD38

[Literature & Leftovers @LitAndLeftovers]

"The costume maker was intrigued. To make a ghost, she had to make death and then unmake it. But why? There were plenty of ways to haunt as a windowpane or a radiator."

Totally in love with this spooky wee story - more brilliant work from Debbie Vance! 👻
https://t.co/NjC3GBzv7T

[Debbie Vance @DebbieAnneVance]

"To make a ghost, the costume maker didn’t just have to make and unmake death. She had to cut the singular shape of Hen and fill it with everything he had been."

Another small haunt up at @ElectricLit today https://t.co/7jbXBnOu6J

[Literature & Leftovers @LitAndLeftovers]

@XochitltheG AMAZING!! Congratulations Xochitl! 🥳

[Picador Books @picadorbooks]

🐙 Calling all fans of #saltslow by @JuliaArmfield! 🌊

We are publishing Julia Armfield's debut novel OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA in March 2022.

Here's the first line..."The deep sea is a haunted house: a place in which things that ought not to exist move about in the darkness."

[Literature & Leftovers @LitAndLeftovers]

@Rhys_Owain @newgothicreview Bless you Rhys! Well thank you for the story, it is 🤌💋👨‍🍳 chef’s kiss!

And oh my days yes please, steer well clear of it. It is on Netflix if you fancy torturing your eyes, mind...

[Literature & Leftovers @LitAndLeftovers]

ISSUE 3 OF @newgothicreview IS OUT NOW!

We're kicking off with 'Passengers' by the brilliant @Rhys_Owain. It will cleanse the awful metallic aftertaste of 'You Should Have Left' from your palette. Truly, the spooky tale Wales deserves.
Mae'n wych!

https://t.co/9cWMovvYdF

[Literature & Leftovers @LitAndLeftovers]

Straight to the very top of my TBR pile 👀

[Kylie Whitehead @kyliesaysrelax]

Ghosts ghosts #ghosted. So pumped for this one 🖤👻🖤

[Flash Frog @flashfroglitmag]

If you could choose ANY artist (alive or dead) to create an original piece of art to accompany a short story you wrote, who would it be? 🎨

[Literature & Leftovers @LitAndLeftovers]

This is now a @newgothicreview stan account. No other fiction exists, thanks. x

[Literature & Leftovers @LitAndLeftovers]

Absolutely captivated by this illustration from Zuzanna Kwiecień (@firstaidkiddo), it is unreal. Tattoo the whole thing on my face please.

[New Gothic Review || Issue 4 Out Now @newgothicreview]

A taste of Issue 3 (out tomorrow):

1.🚶‍♀️🌊🐬
2. 🤲☠️🌈
3. 👩‍❤️‍👨🪴🧍‍♀️
4. 💍🪰🌪
5. 🚢⬇️👻
6. 🫀🧐🔪

[Literature & Leftovers @LitAndLeftovers]

I am *horrifically* excited for a new issue of @newgothicreview tomorrow, so to celebrate here is one of my favourites from their last issue! 🥳

You can read ‘Let Shadows Slip Through’ by the brilliant @KaliNapier here:

https://t.co/q7kXOSLKC6

[New Gothic Review || Issue 4 Out Now @newgothicreview]

On April 29th, Issue 3 is coming and with it comes breathtaking, bold, and nightmarish fiction.

Fiction from:
@CWilsonPoet
@MelissaElborn
@Lottyyy
@Rhys_Owain
@duh_jenna
@shauny_fitz

If this isn’t contemporary gothic writing at its best, we don’t know what is...

[Tether's End Magazine @tethersendmag]

Just 15 days left to submit to Issue 2! Keep the folklore subs coming:
https://t.co/26ju0GQdYc

[Literature & Leftovers @LitAndLeftovers]

Absolutely enthralled with this one! Happy Tuesday folks ☕️

[Joyland Publishing @JoylandPub]

"This story starts where it should have stopped." — from 'Longo' by Brad Wetherell

https://t.co/cfZMUE9mqu

[Literature & Leftovers @LitAndLeftovers]

Monday morning: 👎
Monday morning which brings a new @MargaretAtwood short story... 👀!

Stay safe & warm & enjoy lovely readers!

[Literature & Leftovers @LitAndLeftovers]

"...the dock is peeling like a sunburn, and water gets under the remaining patches, softening the wood. Still, they may not have to rebuild the dock themselves; this one could last them out. The younger gen will have to do it, assuming they’re up to it."

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

“Others have been through this particular time labyrinth before them. The whole cabin is strewn with little ambushes in the form of the written word.” A new short story by @MargaretAtwood. https://t.co/Wifkx7iB47