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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday, flash-friday, Uncategorised
Flash Friday Weekend Challenge: 150 Words. Three Backpacks.
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday, flash-friday
Best Small Fictions 2026–27: Five Litro Selections
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 Friday, flash-friday
Not Her Boyfriend
He is not her boyfriend. He calls all the time, stays over, fights with her, makes her cry and everyone at the party knows too much has already not been ...
Gajar Halwa
In a crowded family home in Allahabad, a grandmother slowly cooks gajar halwa while a girl begins to understand what her mother survived before she became her mother.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Fiction Contest, Flash Friday, flash-friday
The Lobby
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.
One funded place for October
We’ve opened one funded place on Litro’s October Submission Sprint for a writer who might not otherwise be able to take part.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
MASTER & DISCIPLE
In a polluted corner of London, Gen Kelsang teaches her students to contemplate death and practise non-attachment. But after class, a frightened teenager, an expensive gift and a journey home ...
Fiction, Fiction in Translation, Flash Friday
Time of Passage by Jonathan Vidgop
A familiar bus journey slips into unfamiliar country, leaving one passenger awake among sleepers and unable to say when the journey began.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
A Little Time by Lavinia Liang
When people from the past and future begin appearing around town, the residents learn that every encounter is brief – and that knowing more is not always the same as ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales
The End of the World
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
Changing Tides- Heike Rentel
Once the wife of Comrade Commissaire, she now sells fish in the market — and learns that scales may outlast diamonds.
Gliberty Glop – Harry Pearse
A password, a doorway and two people who think they are playing entirely different games.
The Golden Nugget
A found stone gives an isolated schoolboy the courage to invent a royal past. As the lie carries him into adulthood, its weight begins to change.
Crossings -Etta Levi Smythe
A boat crossing from Ithaca becomes a passage through grief, drought, memory, and the return of what the body has tried to bury.
Storm Rachel
Part One: Mouse House
“After you,” said Stuart, holding back a bright shock of gorse. The gate creaked a strange welcome and I stepped through.
A smell ...
Rabies
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.
What Are the Chances – Nicky Torode
On a hot South London afternoon, Nina’s small win on a scratch card leads her through old grief, old streets, and the fragile possibility of starting again.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Litro #97: East London, Litro #97: East London, Print Issues, Story Sunday
Rio by Louise Stern
Two young women drift through Copacabana, caught between heat, danger, silence and spectacle in Louise Stern’s archive story “Rio.”
Fiction, Short Fiction, Tuesday Tales
“The World Expects” By Linda Coulby
A military widow prepares to lay a wreath one year after her husband’s death, holding herself together beneath the eyes of the public, the press, and a world that expects ...
Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Story Sunday
The Alphas of Minor Consequence
Ryo Whitefish fishes a depleted stretch, resents the system that fixed his life in place, and risks everything on illegal runs to Minor Consequence, a correctional moon where the descendants ...