A professor of 20th-century American history who fought in Vietnam intends to write a book about his experiences. When he finds he is unable to express his feelings, however, a friend who had fallen helps the professor focus his thoughts.

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A couple bicker as they sit outside a café in France.

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A man stands out in the cold, hoping to spread the word of Jesus to passers-by.

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A man sweeps up the ashes of Jeanne D'Arc after she is martyred.

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Ben Bryne explores the life and habits of the most popular of the crustaceans: the crab.

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“At the foot of the stairs, the match went out, and he paused to strike another. And at the same moment, a knock, so quiet and stealthy as to be scarcely audible, sounded on the front door.”

A life-long fan of tales of horror and the supernatural, Sarah Water’s novel The Little Stranger is a very modern ghost story in which war trauma, grief and class tensions fuel a very modern haunting.

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In the run-up to our Ghosts issue, which will go up online on Halloween, the 31st, Litro Lab celebrates with a spooky podcast. We talk to actor Robert Lloyd Parry: www.nunkie.co.uk/ about bringing the tales of the ghost story master, M.

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Today we kick off a new series on Litro Lab, where we invite a writer to choose a short story they love and talk to us about why they love it. Our first guest author is Alison Moore: www.alison-moore.com/, whose debut novel The Lighthouse: www.saltpublishing.com/shop/proddeta…9781907773174

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In the run-up to our Ghosts issue, which will go online on Halloween, Litro Lab talks to actor Robert Lloyd Parry about bringing the tales of the ghost story master, M. R. James, to the stage in his one-man show, and listen to his reading of James’ “A School Story”.

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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 United Kingdom, is learning, and paying, through Brexit.

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