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, ...
A strangely resonant story of teenage love, betrayal and friendship in the time of the Cold War.
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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 ...
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 ...
Catherine McNamara talks to Bryan Okwesili about flash fiction and the writing life
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A son submits to his mother’s haircuts and their rapport is restored.
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Catherine McNamara’s Love Stories for Hectic People reviewed
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This week on Litro Lab podcast, we have a disturbing piece of flash fiction with dystopian hints.
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This week on Litro Lab, we access the anxious thoughts of a man while he walks through a rainy city. This is an experimental piece that blends music and words. ...
This week on Litro Lab, we invite you to close your eyes and immerse yourself in this oneiric flash fiction piece that tells the story of a little boy and ...
How far can we break down the parts before we find the whole again?
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The Missing Step, #FridayFlash a short noir story in the style of Alan Moore
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The loss of a lover is met with sorrowful elegance
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Instead, she reaches for the dial and turns it. Rain falls.
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Her loneliness touches me. I want to make her happy. I will buy her a present.
In a shop I ask, Do you have a present for a lonely sad ...
The consequences of rule-breaking had always preyed on his most colourful anxieties.
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As prophesied, the gods returned to judge the humans. As mistranslated and misinterpreted as humanity’s myths had been through the millennia, they had accurately recorded a handful of details. ...
HER, a short story about a social media-fuelled obsession with a love rival.
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Rain-soaked and tired from work, she steps into the apartment complex, aching to strip away the suffocating layers of clothes.
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As my uncle stumbles over pronouns and nomenclature, I look out to see the sky being pulled in every direction and I think about her—being pulled like that, every which ...
