Bitter is an indie literary magazine that seeks out experimental and visceral work.


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  • Girls

    Olivia Murphy-Major is a writer living in Montreal, Canada. Her work has appeared in The Saturday Evening Post, Yolk Literary Magazine, Catamaran Literary Reader, Soliloquies Anthology, and pixie literary magazine.

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  • Notes On Hunger

    “The sickness, the daughter of her sickness, was inside of me. A creature slithered below the surface, swallowing its own tail, both so hungry and so scared of the bite.”

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  • cutting the air with a dull knife

    “and so the next logical step would be to crucify the lord in a parking lot— no need for mountainous splendor or a wad of olive branches”

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