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  • Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales

    The Last Sunday

    The Last Sunday

    The boy puts a blanket over the two of them and he turns off the light. His mother stirs but the delicate frame of his ...
    by Litro Magazine | 17th March 202617th March 2026
  • Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales

    Saviour

    Saviour

    Someone has been leaving stuff in the recycling room.   The tiny blue piano is missing a leg, although someone compassionate has made do by jamming in ...
    by Litro Magazine | 17th March 202617th March 2026
  • Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales

    Home Plate

    Home Plate

                When I was twelve years old, before I knew girls were not allowed to play professional baseball, I would take a tennis ball, throw ...
    by Litro Magazine | 17th March 202617th March 2026
  • Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales

    Sunday Service

    Sunday Service

    A missed bus leaves a young woman trapped in a stranger’s grievance and in one of the week’s best examples of tension built from politeness, ...
    by Mandy Monk | 17th March 202622nd March 2026
  • Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

    Festival

    Festival

    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 ...
    by Ronan Ryan | 15th March 202616th March 2026
  • Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday

    Jonesy’s Bones

    Jonesy’s Bones

    A bone appears on the doormat. Then another. Then a skull. In Samuel Smith’s sly sci-fi flash, domestic routine gives way to something far stranger ...
    by Litro Magazine | 13th March 202613th March 2026
  • Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales

     Endgame

     Endgame

    A quieter, elegiac late-life story about grief and aging—about the fragile inventions that make a life feel habitable again.

    by Litro Magazine | 10th March 202611th March 2026
  • Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales

    Felicia

    Felicia

    A story of survival where tenderness and danger begin to resemble each other, and the truth becomes something people negotiate rather than accept.

    by Litro Magazine | 10th March 202610th March 2026
  • Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

    A child, a chick, a house abandoned.

    A child, a chick, a house abandoned.

    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.

    by Marcelle Stoutjesdijk | 8th March 202610th March 2026
  • Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

    Whatever Happened to the Saturnines?

    Whatever Happened to the Saturnines?

    A countryside weekend becomes a decision point: pregnancy, classed comfort, and a relationship testing where choice ends and expectation begins.

    by Litro Magazine | 8th March 20268th March 2026
  • Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales

    Happiness is This

    Happiness is This

    A London mother searches for calm inside the repetitive strain of love — until the day breaks open.

    by Mickey Suman | 3rd March 20264th March 2026
  • Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales

    The Rowan Tree

    The Rowan Tree

    Grief takes root in a garden — and the tree begins to answer back.

    by Litro Magazine | 3rd March 20263rd March 2026
  • Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales

    Running Reds

    Running Reds

    A life annotated into being — desire, shame, and the road that refuses to stand still.

    by Litro Magazine | 3rd March 20263rd March 2026
  • Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

    The Prayer

    The Prayer

    A city night, a moving car, and a voice trying to make sense of what can’t be fixed. In “The Prayer,” MB Munroe writes grief ...
    by Litro Magazine | 1st March 20263rd March 2026
  • Art, Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales

    “The Proclamation” — Tuesday Tales

    “The Proclamation” — Tuesday Tales

    A Paris café, 1873. A poet pits a Hoplite against an old man armed with a cabbage — then the real duel begins: art, power, ...
    by Jake Kendall | 24th February 202624th February 2026
  • Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales

    Tuesday Tales: 10 February, 2026

    Tuesday Tales: 10 February, 2026

    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 ...
    by Litro Magazine | 10th February 202610th February 2026
  • Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

    Story Sunday – February 8, 2026

    Story Sunday – February 8, 2026

    Four standout reads: Month of the Lilies, I’m Not Here, The Kingdom, and Guns, Ink and Smiles. ...
    by Litro Magazine | 8th February 20268th February 2026
  • Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

    The Kingdom

    The Kingdom

    A satirical dispatch from a world where faith is a product and obedience is enforced with a smile.

    by Litro Magazine | 8th February 20268th February 2026
  • Fiction, Story Sunday

    Month of the Lilies

    Month of the Lilies

    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 ...
    by Adrian Slatcher | 8th February 202623rd February 2026
  • Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Essay, Fiction, Flash Friday, Technology

    Litro Flash Friday Challenge: THE ODDS ARE IN

    Litro Flash Friday Challenge: THE ODDS ARE IN

    Litro Flash Friday Challenge THE ODDS ARE IN ...
    by Litro Magazine | 7th February 20268th February 2026

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