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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
A limited vinyl reissue. Two brothers. A teenage son. And thirty years between the record they remember and the lives they ended up living.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
A tick bite. A worried mother. A woman thirty-four weeks pregnant. And a baby who has other plans.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
A yellow pee bucket. Two open duffel bags. A backpack tossed through a dirty window. And a fifteen-year-old who already speaks fluent eviction.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Fiction, Flash Friday, flash-friday
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Fiction Contest, Flash Friday, flash-friday
In a hotel lobby, one holiday ends as another begins. Guests check in, check out, look for the bar, ask for Alex — and Alex keeps smiling.
Fiction, Fiction in Translation, Flash Friday
A familiar bus journey slips into unfamiliar country, leaving one passenger awake among sleepers and unable to say when the journey began.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday, flash-friday, International Fiction
Once the wife of Comrade Commissaire, she now sells fish in the market — and learns that scales may outlast diamonds.
Editor's Pick, Flash Friday, flash-friday, Short Fiction
A brief, intimate flash about desire, faith, performance and regret, as a bedroom conversation turns into a reckoning with what gets hidden and what gets saved for later.
A boat crossing from Ithaca becomes a passage through grief, drought, memory, and the return of what the body has tried to bury.
As the lake retreats and rabid dogs gather at the shore, an ageing couple hold out on an island, finishing a children’s book for the daughter they lost.
On a hot South London afternoon, Nina’s small win on a scratch card leads her through old grief, old streets, and the fragile possibility of starting again.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Litro #97: East London, Litro #97: East London, Print Issues, Story Sunday
Two young women drift through Copacabana, caught between heat, danger, silence and spectacle in Louise Stern’s archive story “Rio.”
Arts & Culture, Books, Digital Culture, Editor's Pick, Fiction, Reviews
A Litro guide to the best small-press fiction of 2026 so far, with six real titles from independent publishers including Cipher Press, Saqi, Cassava Republic, Moist and Conduit.
Fiction, Story Sunday, Uncategorised
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Future Archives, Story Sunday
On a bus route threaded through memory, design, and stray thought, Simeon Edwards turns ordinary transit into something stranger: a study in urban perception, presence, and drift.