Story Sunday

Dive into the best stories Litro magazine has published within the last week.

Quiz Night

We go to a pub quiz every Wednesday night, my wife Mel and me. We go with our friends Simon and Ginny. Ginny is Mel’s best friend. They’ve known each ...

by Thomas Morgan • 3rd July 202230th June 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

A Dictionary of Our Time in the Wild

ADDER I felt the bite in the region of Staple Oak Fell. Searing pain flooded the muscle of my left calf. Looking down, I could see the black-and-silver tail of the ...

by David Brookes • 26th June 20228th June 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

Best,

Part I Denver had found himself too old rather suddenly. As if his body aged without him knowing. It took him a while to notice. It wasn’t the gray hair; that had ...

by s.lee bennett • 19th June 20228th June 2022

Editor's Pick, Experimental Writing Issue, Fiction, Story Sunday

Linger Generously

Be Kind, Rewind I stare at the scuffed lino of the corridor, listening to the fading rustle of his jacket as he makes his way downstairs. When he pulls the main ...

by Dermot O'Sullivan • 12th June 20228th June 2022

Editor's Pick, Experimental Writing Issue, Fiction, Story Sunday

The Search for Slate

“Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures.” Guy Debord ...

by Jack Lethbridge • 5th June 202226th August 2022

Editor's Pick, Experimental Writing Issue, Fiction, Story Sunday

FIRST BUNDLE OF DOCUMENTS (from THE OLIVE DRAB FOOTLOCKER)

Photo by Angie Chung. Is it turtles all the way down? • The supreme principle is the monad. The monad is also a second principle, along with the dyad. The ...

by tetmancallis • 29th May 20223rd May 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

Brock Turley Was in Westerns

In the summer of my second year of university, I was working in the kind of dingy, backstreet pub that seemed to consider the fact of being dingy and backstreet ...

by Anthony Picton • 22nd May 20228th May 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

Frequent Flyer

Tea and travel, a privileged friend gives up both. ...

by Joe Baumann • 15th May 20223rd May 2022

Editor's Pick, Experimental Writing Issue, Fiction, Story Sunday

LE SPLEEN DE BARCELONA

Bibliophiles and book thieves. ...

by Rafael Mendes • 8th May 20223rd May 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

Delicate Flower

What we can sense when it is quiet. ...

by Nicky Falkof • 1st May 202229th April 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

Violence

A hangover leads to a revelation About ...

by Sean Tanner • 24th April 202227th May 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

Loosies

… ...

by Patricia Q. Bidar • 17th April 20229th April 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

Our Boy

A night out About ...

by Hannah Sutherland • 10th April 20229th April 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

Customer Enquiry

Photo provided by author. Dear Customer #9375508, Thank you for letting us know about your unsatisfactory experience. While our engineers at Girlfriend Factory™ are working hard to remove all technical difficulties, our customer ...

by A. C. • 27th March 202224th March 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

For Rent: A Museum

When they came for him, I did not ask questions. ...

by Anya Goncharova Spence • 20th March 202216th March 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

Mal Vu

You are fourteen when your dad moves the family halfway across the country to a place called River View. The name is a broken promise: your flat looks out onto ...

by Maya Kalev • 13th March 20229th March 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

Pigeon

Photo by Clay Leconey There was something incongruous about the man’s back. My eyes followed him around the bookshop. He was slim, of medium height, dressed in beige, classic-cut mackintosh, and ...

by vesna main • 6th March 20225th March 2022