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Go shoppingShort fiction from Litro Magazine — flash, micro, and longer work, including selected audio stories and online exclusives.
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.
A password, a doorway and two people who think they are playing entirely different games.
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.
A boat crossing from Ithaca becomes a passage through grief, drought, memory, and the return of what the body has tried to bury.
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.
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
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
Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Story Sunday
Fiction, Flash Friday, flash-friday
An elderly disabled woman waits for lunch and care, but memory reveals a hidden life of espionage, desire, and danger in Penny Pepper’s flash fiction.
Fiction, Flash Friday, flash-friday
A station vending machine becomes a daily oracle: tea, soda, or corn soup — each one predicting whether someone will speak to the person they like.
Fiction, Flash Friday, flash-friday
Fiction, Flash Friday, Future Archives
Flash Friday: Systems Under Strain (Four New Stories)
Fiction, Flash Friday, Future Archives, Story Sunday
One morning, Michael Z. wakes to silence then to scandal. T.L. Huchu’s story is a cutting, darkly comic portrait of literary culture, AI authorship, and the speed of public ruin.
Fiction, Flash Friday, flash-friday
Fiction, Flash Fiction Contest, Flash Friday, flash-friday
Arts & Culture, Books, Digital Culture, Editor's Pick, Fiction, Reviews
A Litro guide to the best small-press fiction of 2026 so far, with six real titles from independent publishers including Cipher Press, Saqi, Cassava Republic, Moist and Conduit.