Your new midday ritual: a short story posted weekdays @ 12 to enjoy with your lunch (whatever you happen to have crammed in your tupperware)
๐by @bethrosewatt
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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
[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
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
"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! ๐ป
https://t.co/NjC3GBzv7T
"To make a ghost, the costume maker didnโt 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
๐ Calling all fans of #saltslow by @JuliaArmfield! ๐
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."
@Rhys_Owain@newgothicreview Bless you Rhys! Well thank you for the story, it is ๐ค๐๐จโ๐ณ chefโs kiss!
And oh my days yes please, steer well clear of it. It is on Netflix if you fancy torturing your eyes, mind...
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
I am *horrifically* excited for a new issue of @newgothicreview tomorrow, so to celebrate here is one of my favourites from their last issue! ๐ฅณ
You can read โLet Shadows Slip Throughโ by the brilliant @KaliNapier here:
https://t.co/q7kXOSLKC6
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 isnโt contemporary gothic writing at its best, we donโt know what is...
"...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 theyโre up to it."
โOthers have been through this particular time labyrinth before them. The whole cabin is strewn with little ambushes in the form of the written word.โ A new short story by @MargaretAtwood. https://t.co/Wifkx7iB47