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Go shoppingLitro’s weekly fiction feature — carefully selected stories with voice, pressure, movement and lasting afterimage.
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, Story Sunday
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
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, Speculative Fiction, Story Sunday
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, Story Sunday, Uncategorised
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Future Archives, Story Sunday
On a bus route threaded through memory, design, and stray thought, Simeon Edwards turns ordinary transit into something stranger: a study in urban perception, presence, and drift.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Future Archives, Story Sunday
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
At the Edinburgh Festival, a solitary café regular lets a stranger share his table and a single day opens into something riskier, funnier, and harder to forget.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
A barefoot child finds a fallen chick and carries it through an abandoned house and street maze—care as instinct, fear as clock, return as vow.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
A countryside weekend becomes a decision point: pregnancy, classed comfort, and a relationship testing where choice ends and expectation begins.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
A satirical dispatch from a world where faith is a product and obedience is enforced with a smile.
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.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
An intuitive and resonant piece on grief and how a death makes us question what we are and what we know.