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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
Bees
The bees are flying upside down, you said.
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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 ...
Digital Subscription, Editor's Pick, Fiction, Litro #182: Experimental, Print Issues
Litro #182: Experimental – A Rogue Cure
On sunny afternoons, I go out to the street to eat tar.
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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.
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Melusine experiment: lab notes [fragment]
Puddle onto concrete and thrashing, weaker-weaker before subsiding to limp stillness.
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Prepare to be Amazed
His mother hovers over a pirate ship cake. The father loiters by the tea urn.
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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 ...
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Burgundy Dust
“All who witnessed her performance felt like they had become part of a strange and romantic movie.”
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Bone China and Velvet
He says he married a girl who is sweet and merry
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Three-Legged
What would’ve happened if we’d never met – only shared a glance and a smile across a packed auditorium, the fresh lacquer smell of the stage mingling with stale cigarette ...
What We Saw
Without our secrets, we did not have a body. Without our secrets, we did not need a body.
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Potency
‘I’m afraid there’s been another incident with your father.’ David remains motionless, hoping the information, like a wasp at a picnic, will bother someone else. Following the previous complaint, he ...
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Exchange
After leaving my lover by way of a kind but firm email, I cried for several hours. On receiving his sad but kind reply, I cried some more. Then I ...
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T-shirts
One of the facsimiles was in need of a new top. This of course brought me into communion with the Internet. In doing this, I was immediately reminded of the ...
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Living Sculptures
Our topiarist is known for collecting broken umbrellas. Her house is full of blank-paged books. Pruning shears. Frames without pictures. Every fork is bent & she likes it that way. ...
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Xanbir
Us? We are dry bread in the mouth, rough on the tongue. Our imperfect faces are hidden away behind soot-stained xanbirs of wooly cloth that used to be white as ...
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Debris
Photo by Jo Sau.
The one time a man asks for her knickers, he says panties. This is no American either. This is a man from Sunderland who, when he speaks, ...
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Protect and Survive
A strangely resonant story of teenage love, betrayal and friendship in the time of the Cold War.
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Literary Love
Attributed to William Notman. Still Life with Books, 1870s–80s. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
214 – Theodicy
God is good. Bad things happen. Both of these things can ...
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Fish Brain
Rimac. Fish, 1000–1476. Cotton, slit tapestry weave with eccentric wefts.Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago; Kate S. Buckingham Endowment.
You fail to see it coming. It’s always zombie humans ...