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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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 ...
Always Kissing, a touching piece of Flash Fiction that will make you wonder, what’s hidden behind the smiles of your neighbour.
“Man and wife stand at the doorway, shoulder to ...
I take off my clothes. Not how you remove them in dribs and drabs; I remove everything I can in one glorious blitz of movement.
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Ladder to loft catches cobwebs in sun’s rays and the caked dirt of decades sits behind fresh splinters. Pity the pale skinned girl and the walk to come later, slip-on ...
I ask if you want to go inside and get something hot to drink. I read that they do good coffee near here. You shake your head and bend down ...
“What the fuck?” he says. “What d’you do?”
“It’s a warning label.” A kid’s last chance to prove himself. But can he keep out of trouble?
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In the latest in our Meet The Editors series we talk to Kristen Harrison and Preti Taneja from Visual Verse, a platform that sets its submitters an hour challenge to ...
Contemplating the nature of evil.
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‘It was one of them electric cigs. Not the oddest curio Mab’s brought in, I thought. Until I took a long, hefty drag and inhaled every particle of dust the ...
Desire, sexual tension and violence conspire to frustrate one couple’s relationship in this edgy little tale from Ian Shine.
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“The hedgerow clipper raises his shears. The blades scrape and snip. Thin limbs topple from their perch and land like gauntlets at the pimp’s feet.”
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Subconscious communication between the pages of a diary.
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“You should have stayed at home today, not be in a car with the heater on, waiting in a layby for your spare phone to ring. You should have remembered ...
To coincide with the publication of her debut novel “Our Endless Numbered Days” we have an exclusive short story by Claire Fuller for Litro readers.
“Record it in your ...
“Mine and Rebecca’s love was born under a cloud of MDMA and that’s where it stayed for 75 days. Not that she’s figured that out yet.”
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Our Flash of Inspiration this month is ‘30% Off’ by Clodagh O’Brien, a beautifully perceptive examination of one woman’s emotional breakdown.
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“For the thousandth time, well before first light, you walk the ancient track through the forest, the place where you and Spike used to come nearly every weekend when you ...
“A calm face on a pillow with reddened hair tucked back. The boy aims for the eye behind its plum casing and slams the hand down, once, cracking through orbital ...
“Oh how I love thee. Let me count the ways: seven milligrams, fourteen milligrams, twenty-one milligrams…” Love, addiction, obsession and nicotine patches collide in this sinister little tale by Ewan ...