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Pegasus
“And there’s the Milky Way splashed across the sky – right where I left it.” Amanda Barusch outlines the shape of stars and grief.
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Schrödinger’s Chick
“Look what I found on the doorstep this morning,” says Emilio, cradling something on his hands as he enters the kitchen “but I don’t know what to make of it. ...
From the Balcony
“You can have this memory, if you want, completely uncorrupted.” On the balcony, two friends talk away the world.
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Encore
In this story we breathe the intimacy of a sensual, gritty city
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Edith Wharton and Dog Cemeteries
Wharton could see the cemetery from her window as she wrote (every day until at least 11, lying in bed), surrounded by her living dogs and gazing out at her dead. ...
Litro: The Memory issue #184
Cover Artist: Javier Rey
Letter from the Editor by Eric Akoto
Gorgeous by Matthew Perkins
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
The New Dress
“I’d been out with other women over the past year, but Madeline tripped some wires inside me…” Today’s #StorySunday is “The New Dress” by Patrick Partridge. ...
Goodbye to Gary
“I put Gary down as just another relic of the hippy era eking out his pension in the Land of Smiles.” Bangkok, retirement, friendship, life.
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Mae misses Kitaj
“After he’d gone, her friend Cecilia said missing cats like Murakami’s kickstart stories.” Today’s #StorySunday is “Mae misses Kitaj” by Chris Vaughan.
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Sailcloth
“I saw a chasm grow below, letting in the sea…” Today’s #StorySunday is “Sailcloth” by Toni Osgood.
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How to Open a Coconut
Bash the coconut as hard as you can on the terracotta tiles and then the corners of the stucco-clad house before—keenly aware of your daughter’s waning interest and her diminishing ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
The Roses & the Weeds
“You’re getting too old to shag in a van.” Today’s #StorySunday is “The Roses & the Weeds” by Elinora Westfall.
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The Border Crosser
A man’s life perspective is mysteriously changed while on a balloon ride that he has saved up for. : “The air surged into the balloon folds, the sackcloth flapped, and ...
The Breach of Zero’s Perfect Circle
“She let his words gather then cracked them open like fruit.” Hospitals, daughters, relationships: how one woman struggles through it all.
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Cap de Creus III
“The future is a rumour, the trader said.” Read the final installment of AJW’s magnificent, timeless piece: “Cap de Creus III.”
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The fringed shadow of the palm tree
A futuristic look at our fraying ecology: “Out on the streets, stray dogs collapsed, their jaws sunk into pools of their own drool
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Reunion
“I would gaze up at the stars and sink into my dreams like honey.” A quiet tale of relationships, alcohol, and (mis)communication.
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Cap de Creus II
“Maybe I could not see the future made, the on and the off, or what I could have thought.” The next installment of this captivating read. ...
Unmade Beds
“A brief history of fucking: “”We found each other.. when teen angst had the urge to yank
innocence’s hair, talk dirty in its ear.”
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Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, podcast
The International Junkie | Litro Lab Podcast
A holiday weekend in Barcelona is the subject of today’s #Podcast – we present “The International Junkie”, by Lana Citron.
Podcast: Embed
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