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#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction
AFRICAN KIDS CLUB
A young woman’s life changes when she joins a secret club
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
LEAF IDENTIFICATION
A daughter reads the skin of trees as she reads her father’s hands
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LINDENS ON THE KEYSERLEI
Two siblings prepare for a difficult conversation with their mother.
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Friendship Issue
TO THE BONE
A girl resists helping her sister
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
GREAT AUNTS
Great aunts linger in memory
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Book Review: Astral Travel by Elizabeth Baines
There comes a point in your grown-up life when you realise that your parents are just people, human beings like anybody else.
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When the tears don’t fall
An intimate portrayal of a young couple dealing with the loss of their child.
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The Painful Love and Gratifying Hatred
A young mother reflects on the currents that pass through families, as she tucks her child to sleep.
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The Making of Legacy | Litro Lab Podcast
This week on Litro Lab, Michele Wheeler shares with us an intimate story about her relationship with her grandfather, a machinist who taught her the importance on passing on legacy ...
The Birthday Party
One husband, two sons. Alive. Limbs and faculties intact. I got away with it?
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Unity
Freedom comes at high costs, and requires plenty of responsibility…Latvia learned this the hard way. And it is a lesson, and a price, my adopted home country of the ...
Digital Subscription, Litro #169: Korea, Print Issues
Where Are We Now
The ongoing project, “Where Are We Now”, is a series of linoleum cut prints in comic strip format in two matrixes, one in a comic-strip style and another in repetition of the ...
On Culture: Parenting, Reading, Emigrating, Love
It didn’t occur to me until last Christmas, as I hugged my family goodbye in Washington’s Dulles Airport, that there might have been a better reason for my mother’s adherence ...
It’s Alright, Meaning Just Admit It
My mother would describe her gynecological problems to strangers. I would be trying on a pair of jeans, and I would hear “womb” or “spasm” over the curtain.
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Chino
Her mother did nothing but shake her head as he’d then barricade her inside that dark tomb for hours.
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Anything Could Happen Here
After sunset, she multiplied and subtracted, structured her existence. She likes the feel of numbers, she can smell them as she counts, taste their shape. In the dark, she weighs ...
Q&A: Jo Gatford
I enjoy being inside a character’s head, especially if they’re somewhat unpleasant or difficult to sympathise with. I try my best to draw out the kind of thoughts they would ...
I Remember: Brothers
Novelist Kevin Brockmeier has written the second instalment in Litro’s new series of miniature memoir. He’s nine or ten, and he’s looking down on traffic.
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Protection or Privacy: Observation is Futile in This Dark Road to Mercy
A deconstruction of safety and security within Wiley Cash’s latest novel – and our current Litro Book Club pick – This Dark Road to Mercy.
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The Barbarossa Express
“I couldn’t move home, but maybe I could repay some of their kindness. I knew their stories of Christmas gifts that never arrived, and I knew their current interests. I ...