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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
A limited vinyl reissue. Two brothers. A teenage son. And thirty years between the record they remember and the lives they ended up living.
Editor's Pick, Flash Friday, flash-friday
Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick
Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
A tick bite. A worried mother. A woman thirty-four weeks pregnant. And a baby who has other plans.
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Essay Saturday
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
A yellow pee bucket. Two open duffel bags. A backpack tossed through a dirty window. And a fifteen-year-old who already speaks fluent eviction.
Editor's Pick, Flash Fiction Contest, Flash Friday, flash-friday
Three writers. Three 150-word stories. Read the winning entries from Litro’s Flash Friday Weekend Challenge, supported by Stormtech.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday, flash-friday
Five pieces of flash published by Litro in 2026, selected to go forward for consideration for the Best Small Fictions 2026–27 double edition.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Fiction Contest, Flash Friday, flash-friday
In a hotel lobby, one holiday ends as another begins. Guests check in, check out, look for the bar, ask for Alex — and Alex keeps smiling.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales
A dying grandmother, a difficult family and an abandoned cigarette force one woman to decide what she owes the living and the dead.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday, flash-friday, International Fiction
Once the wife of Comrade Commissaire, she now sells fish in the market — and learns that scales may outlast diamonds.
Editor's Pick, Flash Friday, flash-friday, Short Fiction
A brief, intimate flash about desire, faith, performance and regret, as a bedroom conversation turns into a reckoning with what gets hidden and what gets saved for later.
As the lake retreats and rabid dogs gather at the shore, an ageing couple hold out on an island, finishing a children’s book for the daughter they lost.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Litro #97: East London, Litro #97: East London, Print Issues, Story Sunday
Two young women drift through Copacabana, caught between heat, danger, silence and spectacle in Louise Stern’s archive story “Rio.”
Art & Technology, Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Interviews
Art & Technology, Editor's Pick, Future Archives, Interviews