By Kerry Byrne Content warning: Addiction & domestic violence You’re not the punky weed on your pegged-out sheets. Empty cans...| LIBRE
By Trais Pearson “Have you seen shapes yet?” She flinched, and willed the slumber from her eyes with slow, deliberate...| LIBRE
By Eric Colburn See my brother break a leg, and see his headslammed against the pavement by a cop,see him...| LIBRE
What have you been up to these last couple of months? Share freely any publication news you may have, and...| LIBRE
By Eric Lawson Curse this aging, ever shrinking bladder!Forced to stumble down the hall to urinatein the middle of the night has fully awakenedme from my slumber and now I’m left witha restless mind and a fidgeting body on edge.Too hot for clothes, too alone to care.No respite from intrusive thoughts.No relief from the day’s…| LIBRE
By Ali Mckenzie-Murdoch “Nor a Drop to Drink” I float on the lullaby waves. The searing sun crowns me, and...| LIBRE
By Ilana Lindsey While I slithered out of my mother’s body with a full head of hair, the piranha infestation...| LIBRE
By Adrienne Marie Barrios I learned that twenty-one months can feel like five minutes, one week, two days. I learned...| LIBRE
By Andrew Cox I wrote the verse. I wrote the chorus. This is all bridge. To take me back before...| LIBRE
By Salem Paige 1. you circle the problemlike a predator huntingweakness, call yourselfthe prey / victim toyour own instincts,the flaws...| LIBRE
By A.S. Aubrey https://youtu.be/a57I-30mW0QThis morning, I sit safe in my office in the darkened day, sun still, not yet rising, safe from client questions, the pain of being human. But I both long for and resist this calling: how deep it digs me into the flesh of this bright and bumbling life, descending and rising,…| LIBRE
By Augustus Schrader Shze-Hui Tjoa | The Story Game | Tin House | May, 2024 | 208 pages In The Story Game, Shze-Hui Tjoa attempts to get into the thick of things, to wade into the deep waters of memory and trauma to take a long look in the mirror and try to understand the…| LIBRE
By Brannon O'Brennan I always have depended on Tobaccosomething to remove …| LIBRE
10 posts published by Christie Wilson, Rogan Kelly, Kira Cordova, Rebecca Tiger, Mary Buchanan Sellers, Matti Ben-Lev, Marie V. Recalde, Christine Hamm, and Mitra Samal during May 2025| librelit.com
Matti Ben-Lev You’re waiting for an elevator. A smooth leather briefcase with an amber-edged, carved handle resting in your palm, slick with sweat. An ironed, fitted blazer with matching slacks. A white collared shirt. Ruby red tie worn slightly too tight around your stiff neck. ding The elevator door opens, crammed with bodies. Solemn-faced crowd.…| LIBRE
Brain Pain, the kind that keeps you up at night, the calibre of demon-at-bay which Canon is pocked with. The greats diagnosed its dailiness through metaphor, while today we greet it with palmfuls of swallowed pills, the ritual of therapy, and advocate’s backbone. Libre is a Southern literature and arts magazine bent on brain pain &…| LIBRE