February runs on spectacle — but most of life happens in smaller rooms and smaller gestures. This week’s Tuesday Tales follows what gets carried, what gets remembered, and what gets ...
Four standout reads: Month of the Lilies, I’m Not Here, The Kingdom, and Guns, Ink and Smiles.
Story Sunday
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A satirical dispatch from a world where faith is a product and obedience is enforced with a smile.
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A childhood near-miss, a plane in the sky, and a charm hidden for survival—then years later, a return to the building where memory lives in the air.
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Litro Flash Friday Challenge
THE ODDS ARE IN
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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.
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“That’s tomorrow,” Mimi says—and suddenly childhood feels breakable.
Vivian Sorvall
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A domestic surface gleams until it starts to feel like a trap.
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A mother’s language begins to slip and her son realises the jokes have teeth.
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A mother wants one simple thing on her birthday: a photo with her daughter. The daughter hears the entire family history inside the request — and walks, reluctantly, toward the ...
William, a Jonah, an orphan, friendless, homeless, poor, trying to survive in a fishing village turned tourist town. Bleak, honest, real.
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An intuitive and resonant piece on grief and how a death makes us question what we are and what we know.
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Unusual, compelling, story about a stone mason’s apprentice fulfilling his own vision in the absence of his master, and his murder when the master returns.
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Inheritance, grief, and the house-as-ghost — staged in two scenes.
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Venice Requiem is a translated novel by Khalid Lyamlahy that refuses spectacle in favour of witness. In a city built on myth and tourism, the book asks what remains when ...
As the fields are stripped bare, a family faces what’s left after the season ends. “Harvest” folds weather, work and memory together in a quiet reckoning with rural life, inheritance ...
Stranded on the Adriatic with more dreams than money, a traveller in Bari learns what you can and can’t barter when everything runs out. A story of hunger, small hustles ...
A walk into the trees becomes something stranger: a pull towards the dark centre of the forest where old stories still breathe. Part myth, part psychological thriller, this tale follows ...
In the third part of George Cox’s The Last Time-Traveller, Reverend Gregory Green agrees to help the woman who claims to have been born five centuries in the future. But ...
A dinner meant to save a marriage becomes a quiet reckoning. In Fine Dining (Aubade), every gesture — a sip, a silence, a final drive — cuts deeper than words. ...
