#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction

The Tears of the Unholy

I’ve tried to squelch that terror, to chase it deep inside me so that the watchers might turn away, but the moment of the bargain always wrenches it forth again. ...

by Via D'Agostino • 11th October 202210th October 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

Them next door

“Sometimes you think you know people but you don’t.” ...

by Andrew Senior • 9th October 202214th October 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday

Bees

The bees are flying upside down, you said. ...

by Tom Vowler • 7th October 20224th October 2022

#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction

SOS

No, I didn’t know Trevor all that well, but, you know, I saw him around. ...

by Jennifer London • 4th October 202210th October 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

Seagulls

He’d said I was part-seagull, and he was too. ...

by Shelley Trower • 2nd October 202214th October 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday

Traitor

To me it’s like he’s holding open a door behind which lies a shiny new future, a bright new beginning, and all we have to do is walk through and ...

by Peter Gordon • 30th September 202214th October 2022

#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction

Sorrow

“The shape of her grew smaller and smaller until she was only a speck at the edge of the road.” ...

by Mari Dunning • 27th September 202214th October 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

The Diamond Studs

“I always wanted to build a house beside the lake with her. It would’ve been a place where we could grow old and fat together and be buried in the ...

by Najeeb S. A. • 25th September 202214th October 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Litro #182: Experimental, Print Issues

Litro #182: Experimental – Parenthetical

we (and by we I mean Claire (the woman I swore (vow (we still vow, we still pledge ourselves, like honourable (‘honour you’, that’s a wedding vow (there’s that word ...

by Charlie Kite • 24th September 202224th September 2022

Digital Subscription, Fiction, Litro #182: Experimental

Litro #182: Experimental – Lumen Odyssey

by Jerry Mouawad • 24th September 202224th September 2022

Digital Subscription, Editor's Pick, Fiction, Litro #182: Experimental, Print Issues

Litro #182: Experimental – A Rogue Cure

by Rae Diamond • 24th September 202224th September 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday

Come for Me

We swung in the wooden swing, creaking back and forth, or rocked in paint-pealing chairs while she and my parents talked of weather, war, politics, or relatives. ...

by Niles Reddick • 23rd September 202214th October 2022

#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction

Big Boxes and Bigger Rooms

Do you think that time makes it harder to feel, or harder to pretend you’re not? ...

by Conor Truax • 20th September 202214th October 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

Buoyancy

“And these things that happen to us. They don’t just live in the past. They echo.” ...

by Guy Davies • 18th September 202214th October 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday

Melusine experiment: lab notes [fragment]

Puddle onto concrete and thrashing, weaker-weaker before subsiding to limp stillness. ...

by L Kiew • 16th September 202214th October 2022

#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction

The Wife

I liked Ben enough. I didn’t love him; I could never love someone so whole. ...

by Sara Moreni • 13th September 202214th October 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

The Bus Driver

He drives a bus, he lives above a shop, he drinks cheap wine, and he is now alone. ...

by CG Casci • 11th September 202214th October 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday

Prepare to be Amazed

His mother hovers over a pirate ship cake. The father loiters by the tea urn. ...

by Anna Symmonds • 9th September 202214th October 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

The Bad Between Us

Our evenings are filled with hospital dramas and 10:00pm bedtimes and getting irritated when one of us reads with the light on, the lamp glowing yellow in the room like ...

by Emily Harrison • 4th September 202214th October 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday

Necessary Measures

Only after the tanks had rolled into the capital, and the intractable president had been hanged, did the officers of the occupying force relax enough to enjoy the spring sun ...

by Gerri Brightwell • 2nd September 202214th October 2022