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#FlashFriday, Editor's Pick, ff
Violet
The later life and decline of a woman who lives with lust and adventure.
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The Goal
A young man tries to adjust to his new life in London.
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Checkpoint
A man arrives at a checkpoint between two warring lands, hoping to be admitted.
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Flat-Pack Pirate | Litro Lab Podcast
Moving houses is disruptive: it can take a while to feel at ease in a new space. You get startled by noises you’re not used to. By different smells. By ...
#FlashFriday, Covid-19 Blog, Editor's Pick
Love in the Time of Corona
A brittle love story in the time of corona
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Arts & Culture, Column, Covid-19 Blog, Editor's Pick, The Litro Blog
The Joy of Reading
The pandemic has fundamentally reconfigured the shape of our lives – both public and personal. Masks in place, we navigate the pandemic-hit world tentatively, alternating between panic and hope, despair ...
Bad Intent
That’s not my name, but I tell you it is. I have no idea why.
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Halloween Flash Friday: Best Laid Plans
The macabre nature of salvation – when a group of climate-thwarted species is threatened by unforeseen and violent danger
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Hattie’s Graves
Here Lies Steven Fulton
Beloved Brother, Uncle, Friend
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A Question of Birth
A surreal exploration into nature and the toll of isolation, posing the question – what happens when we distance ourselves from our own bodies?
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Six Bunnies
A love story, as new waves of disease ravage the future
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Winter Wraiths
“So you know, the theatre is haunted,” the bar back said.
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The Lover
The simple story of a relationship between a woman and a man
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Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Halloween 2020
The Monster on the Green
One night a towering monster with eyes of coal and claws of jet black rock and skin like the stony ground itself stumbles into a village.
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Charles Is Back
It is among the most hopeless of clichés, yet not without its certain bleak pointedness, to speak of time in a bar as having, in some way, stalled – the ...
Monasteries
Perched in the cloister walk, two monks sat deciding what Heaven looked like.
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Mean Drunk
I loved him, up until that third bourbon. He was such a fucking amazing person but jesus he was a mean drunk.
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#EssaySaturday, Editor's Pick, Halloween 2020
Old Haunts: On Halloween, Houses and Home
I have always been haunted by houses, which is fitting – it’s nearly Halloween as I write this. There are seasonal gourds in the shops, pumpkin patches in the fields, ...
A Name Is What You Want It to Be
My grandmother was named after Adolf Hitler. A fact I was not aware of until five years after her death.
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The Rose
‘The Rose’ is a piece of flash fiction set in a hospice.
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