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A quarterly publication of literature from around the world inspired by life, and all things that make us human.

14/04/2022

A New Way to Learn the English Alphabet. 😍🍷

What are your favourite letters? Mine are N.O.P = Never Omit Prayers.🙏

Good Morning! 💖☕🥳

31/03/2022

Every artist wants to feel fulfilled, but here are some tips to help you feel better.

07/10/2021

Nobel Prize in Literature 2021 goes to
Abdulrazak Gurnah (Tanzanian novelist)
He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2021 for his work highlighting colonialism.

1-Memory of Departure (1987)
2-Pilgrims Way (1988)
3-Dottie (1990)
4-Paradise (1994)
5-Admiring Silence (1996)
6-By the Sea (2001)
7-Desertion (2005)
8-The Last Gift (2011)
9-Gravel Heart (2017)
10-Afterlives (2020)

Short stories

My Mother Lived on a Farm in Africa (2006)

01/10/2021

WORD OF THE DAY📚🍷

01/10/2021

HURRAY! IT IS FRIDAY AND FIRST DAY OF THE MONTH! 🍷💃

Let's start the month with a brain-teaser. Only a genius, I repeat only a genius, can answer our today's riddle. Here we go:

Not God but lives below and above
The cloud,
Loves the humble as he does love
The proud,
His law is made to save;
If scorned leads to the grave.

HAPPY NEW MONTH! 💃🍷📚😍

21/09/2021

"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

— William Shakespeare (Macbeth; Act 5, Scene V)

19/09/2021

"According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves."

—Plato (Symposium)

17/09/2021

IT IS FRIDAY! TIME FOR FUN. WHO IS READY FOR RIDDLES? 😊🤔

Do you know a riddle you think no one can answer? You will be surprised. I bet only a genius can answer our today's riddle:

This creature does neither grow
Nor eat nor fly,
Walks under the sun, rain and snow,
On people’s help it does rely
But when it spreads its wings
It shelters man from the nature’s stings.

💃🍷📚😍

15/09/2021

Hello guys, let's do this. It is Wednesday. Let us cross-follow each other. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter and we will follow back.

Drop your handles on the comment box, so that others will get to follow you. I look forward to meeting you. Cheers!🍷🍻

14/09/2021

"No matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there's something stronger—something better, pushing right back." 😍😍

— Albert Camus

13/09/2021

LEGENDS AND MYTHS FROM AROUND THE WORLD 📚

(Episode One)

THE MYTH OF ZEUS

Starting with Greek mythology seems to be the best way to get the ball rolling. Zeus is the Greek's greatest and strongest God who ruled over the land and the air. He was the king of the gods, residing over the Mount Olympus. It was he who caused the clouds to form, and who sent the rain to refresh the thirsty earth. His great weapon was the thunderbolt, which he carried in his right hand, but he barely made use of it, for his frown and angry nod were enough to shake the palaces of the gods themselves.

The humans who lived upon the earth loved as well as feared him, and called him father. He was the most just of all the gods. If there was a great war between the Greeks and another people, all the other gods would take sides, and try to help those whom they favoured, but Zeus would not, as he always tried to be just.

The oak was thought to be sacred to Zeus because it was the strongest and grandest of all the trees. In one part of Greece there was a forest of these, which was called the forest of Dodona. It was so thick and that the sunbeams scarcely found their way through the leaves to the moss upon the ground. Here the wind made strange low sounds among the knotted branches, and people soon began to think that this was their great god Zeus speaking to men through the leaves of his favourite tree. So they set this forest apart as sacred to him; and only his servants, who were called priests, were allowed to live in it. People came to this place from all parts of Greece to ask the advice of the god; and the priests would consult with him, and hear his answers in the murmuring of the wind among the branches.

The Greeks also built beautiful temples for their Zeus, and brought rich gifts of gold and silver and other precious things, to show how thankful they were for the help which he gave them.

Tell us what you know about this Greek powerful god.

02/09/2021

"My own assessment is that the role of the writer is not a rigid position and depends to some extent on the state of health of his or her society. In other words, if a society is ill the writer has a responsibility to point it out. If the society is healthier, the writer's job is different."

— Chinua Achebe (There Was A Country)

01/09/2021

"Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bi***ed from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it."

— Ernest Hemingway

HAPPY NEW MONTH!😍📚 🌹🎶🎶🎵🍷

26/07/2021

"Today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, what is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing."

— Philip K. Dick

-fiction

20/06/2021

"My Dear Lucy,
I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand a word you say but I shall still be

your affectionate Godfather,”

— C. S. Lewis

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY TO ALL THE AMAZING FATHERS AROUND THE WORLD. 🍷❤📚

08/06/2021

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"Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, is the immediate jewel of their souls."

—William Shakespeare (Othello; Act 3, Scene III)

08/06/2021

Something you might find useful. ✌ 🍷📚

01/06/2021

"To mourn a mischief that is past and gone, is the next way to draw new mischief on."

—William Shakespeare (Othello; Act 1, Scene III)

HAPPY NEW MONTH ❤📚🍷

28/05/2021

"Go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something."

— Kurt Vonnegut

28/05/2021

"What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world. The paragon of animals. And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?"

—William Shakespeare (Hamlet; Act 2, Scene II)

28/05/2021

WORD OF THE DAY! 📚✌

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28/05/2021

Learning can be fun, yes; it depends on the skills and strategies of your teacher. 😍📚🍷

17/05/2021

WORD OF THE DAY! ✌

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17/05/2021

"This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live."

— Anthony Trollope

15/05/2021

"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."

—William Shakespeare (The Tempest; Act 1, Scene II)

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QUOTE OF THE DAY 📚 "I'm very primitive; I write with a pen." — Chinua Achebe How many of you are comfortable writing with a pen? As for me, I can't be completely serious when I am writing with a pen. I usually see it as jotting down ideas. Who does the same? 😃 #theliteratus #magazine #zine #quoteoftheday #writing #achebe #writingcommunity #poetsofinstagram #books #novels #literature #writingadvice #submissions

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. -Maya Angelou Do not let that story go unheard. Bare those words for the world to read. We are looking for short stories and flash fiction on any theme for the next issue of ‘The Literatus’. New writers are encouraged to send in their work. Last date for submission is 5th April. Dm for queries.