William, a Jonah, an orphan, friendless, homeless, poor, trying to survive in a fishing village turned tourist town. Bleak, honest, real.
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An intuitive and resonant piece on grief and how a death makes us question what we are and what we know.
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Tezer Ozlu explores the extremity of her inner life and the painful pleasures of memory.
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Unusual, compelling, story about a stone mason’s apprentice fulfilling his own vision in the absence of his master, and his murder when the master returns.
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One of the best things about reading is that there is a publication about almost anything. Fiction lovers are filled with options, politics buffs have loads of books to ...
Venice Requiem is a translated novel by Khalid Lyamlahy that refuses spectacle in favour of witness. In a city built on myth and tourism, the book asks what remains when ...
As the fields are stripped bare, a family faces what’s left after the season ends. “Harvest” folds weather, work and memory together in a quiet reckoning with rural life, inheritance ...
Stranded on the Adriatic with more dreams than money, a traveller in Bari learns what you can and can’t barter when everything runs out. A story of hunger, small hustles ...
Thankfully, for passionate bookworms, there are excellent video games that offer detailed plots filled with twists and turns.
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This week at Litro we’re publishing four stories about the moment the world tilts—softly, then all at once.
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Two lovers stand among the trees as the mind tilts. Love, longing, and the small unspokens that undo us.
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An interviewer hikes into the Black Forest to meet Dopey’s mother. Which witch? Which story? The answers arrive in deadpan whispers—and an axe that glints at dusk.
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Somewhere in these digital worlds, cultural adaptation, small negotiations, and new hybrids are always in motion, and probably at a speed that wasn’t possible before.
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A dinner meant to save a marriage becomes a quiet reckoning. In Fine Dining (Aubade), every gesture — a sip, a silence, a final drive — cuts deeper than words. ...
A night in 1990s Plymouth unravels into violence and consequence. Feral traces the line between fear and guilt in a world of rain-slick streets, cheap lager, and moral drift. A ...
A divorced man forms a strange bond with the burglar who keeps breaking into his home — a darkly funny meditation on loneliness, control, and dependency.
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When a Scots student in Oxford realises he’s losing his language, a tiny creature becomes a bridge between worlds.
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Through glass and grace — Fleshless unravels the limits of perfection.
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Zimbabwean writer NoViolet Bulawayo has won the 2025 Best of Caine Award for her landmark story “Hitting Budapest.” Fourteen years after its original win, the story still stuns with its ...
We’re pleased to share that Litro’s Editor & Publisher, Eric Akoto, has joined the judging panel for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award.
The award celebrates bold new voices in poetry and ...
