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Crossings -Etta Levi Smythe
A boat crossing from Ithaca becomes a passage through grief, drought, memory, and the return of what the body has tried to bury.
Fiction, Short Fiction, Tuesday Tales
“The World Expects” By Linda Coulby
A military widow prepares to lay a wreath one year after her husband’s death, holding herself together beneath the eyes of the public, the press, and a world that expects ...
“Good In a Room” By Jeffrey-Michael Kane
A precise, unsentimental essay on neurodivergence, publishing, query letters, networking, platform-building, and the hidden cost of being expected to perform the writer as well as write the work.
Flash Friday, flash-friday, Short Fiction
“How to Love a Millipede” by Linda Ann Strang
Milicent’s head is covered with live butterflies. Once mocked in acting class, she has become impossible to look away from.
Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Story Sunday
The Alphas of Minor Consequence
Ryo Whitefish fishes a depleted stretch, resents the system that fixed his life in place, and risks everything on illegal runs to Minor Consequence, a correctional moon where the descendants ...
“An Immersion” by Philippa Matthews
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Pylons
When Bobby Jackson dies, the village takes him out to the pylons. In a landscape without power, infrastructure survives only as ritual, and pity has become just another empty speech.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
Six Months More
By Gull Ditta
A data gardener confronts the zero-sum ontology of prediction markets—brilliant speculative fiction that reads like philosophy.
Leo’s world was made of percentages and they were the ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
Perishables
A quiet, devastating story set at a grocery-store customer service desk, where cracked eggs, a warm rotisserie chicken, and a small act of rule-bending reveal the pressure of dignity, money, ...
The Edge of the World
A husband clings to a final journey to the place that once made them feel alive, while his wife quietly begins to imagine the world after him.
Ayotunde Ojo’s rooms refuse to stay still at Tiwani Contemporary Lagos
In A Life Of Its Own, Ayotunde Ojo turns the domestic interior into a site of memory, repetition and quiet instability, layering time until the home starts to feel ...
Tuesday Tales: When Home Stops Holding
Four Tuesday Tales about the moment ordinary life turns unstable. These stories find dread not in spectacle but in rooms, routines, and relationships beginning to slip out of shape.
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Whatever Happened to the Saturnines?
A countryside weekend becomes a decision point: pregnancy, classed comfort, and a relationship testing where choice ends and expectation begins.
Art, Editor's Pick, Masterclasses, Writing Advice, Writing Fuel
A 10-Minute Ekphrasis Reset: Write from Art, Get Unstuck
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Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Essay, Fiction, Flash Fiction Contest, Flash Friday, flash-friday, Technology
Litro Flash Friday Challenge: THE ODDS ARE IN
Litro Flash Friday Challenge
THE ODDS ARE IN
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Fleshless
Through glass and grace — Fleshless unravels the limits of perfection.
An Epic Project: Interview with Richard House on The Kills
Litro contributor Richard House tells us about his four-novel series The Kills, a political thriller and epic literary project that’s set to be one of the literary events of the ...
Letters from the Editor, Litro #117: America
Litro #117: America—Editors’ Letter
America, that slippery beast. One nation, one constitution, one currency: a framework for arguably the most diverse, remarkable and undefinable country in the world. But short stories are something of ...
How To Speak French
Steven Appleby’s work has appeared in newspapers, on television, on Radio 4, on stage at the ICA and in over 20 books. His Coffee Table Book of Doom was published ...