A Litro guide to the best small-press fiction of 2026 so far, with six real titles from independent publishers including Cipher Press, Saqi, Cassava Republic, Moist and Conduit.
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Smartphones have become the default interface for work, communication, entertainment, memory and everyday decision-making. This archive piece belongs in Digital Culture rather than Uncategorised, but it should not be treated ...
Digital exhibitions are changing how audiences encounter ancient art, opening up new ways to preserve, interpret and share cultural heritage. This piece belongs in Litro’s Art & Technology and Digital ...
From over 200 anonymous submissions, five stories were shortlisted for The Odds Are In. We’re pleased to announce AKALA AKA by Anselme Eme as the winner.
Before the system names a pattern, someone has already seen it. “Doña Yola’s Algorithm” is a story about prediction, authority, and who gets believed.
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 both ...
“I awoke dead.” From there, Cervical unfolds into a compact nightmare of bodily estrangement, luxury death, and a future where even dying has terms and conditions.
After New Year’s Eve, a husband and wife move into separate rooms. What follows is a precise, unsettling story about emotional hunger, self-deception, and the domestic objects that absorb both.
A daughter tends to her mother on a weather-beaten coast, where memory falters but old phrases remain. A restrained, devastating flash about care, inheritance, and the strange intimacy of letting ...
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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The boy puts a blanket over the two of them and he turns off the light. His mother stirs but the delicate frame of his little sister remains still. He ...
Someone has been leaving stuff in the recycling room.
The tiny blue piano is missing a leg, although someone compassionate has made do by jamming in a tight-rolled wad of tissue ...
When I was twelve years old, before I knew girls were not allowed to play professional baseball, I would take a tennis ball, throw it hard against the half-finished ...
A 10-step editorial revision pass for short stories: structure, pacing, voice, scene pressure, line edits, and the ending test that catches weak final drafts.
Not every draft needs the same kind of help. Here’s the clear difference between Litro’s FastTrack Editorial Review and Manuscript Assessment, who each service is for, and what to book ...
A story of survival where tenderness and danger begin to resemble each other, and the truth becomes something people negotiate rather than accept.
A man at a red light watches the theatre of charity from the other side of the windscreen.
As the world approaches impact, two people in a city square choose closeness over explanation.
On a riverbank in Kyoto, a heron edges closer to a harmonica player and misreads the terms of enchantment.