Fiction, Tuesday Tales

Tuesday Tales: When Home Stops Holding

Four Tuesday Tales about the moment ordinary life turns unstable. These stories find dread not in spectacle but in rooms, routines, and relationships beginning to slip out of shape. ...

by accounts • 17th March 202617th March 2026

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales

Saviour

Someone has been leaving stuff in the recycling room.   The tiny blue piano is missing a leg, although someone compassionate has made do by jamming in a tight-rolled wad of tissue ...

by accounts • 17th March 202617th March 2026

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday

Jonesy’s Bones

A bone appears on the doormat. Then another. Then a skull. In Samuel Smith’s sly sci-fi flash, domestic routine gives way to something far stranger — and the family cat ...

by accounts • 13th March 202613th March 2026

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales

Happiness is This

A London mother searches for calm inside the repetitive strain of love — until the day breaks open.

by mickey.suman@gmail.com • 3rd March 20264th March 2026

Fiction, Story Sunday

Broke in Bari

Stranded on the Adriatic with more dreams than money, a traveller in Bari learns what you can and can’t barter when everything runs out. A story of hunger, small hustles ...

by accounts • 7th December 20255th May 2026

Fiction, LunchBreak Fiction

The Roller Coaster

On a warm summer’s day, dive into the highs and lows of a surreal roller coaster, where dreams and reality merge into one.

by alexander.nachaj • 16th January 202416th January 2024

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales

The Lady at Number 5

Photo by Sarchi. She was a rather peculiar woman, who lived alone. Life lingered in her slipper shuffles across carpeted rooms. Her home was plumped silent, the solitary loomed. Her purple ...

by imogen davies • 24th May 20224th May 2022

Editor's Pick, Essay, Essay Saturday, Features

THE FURTHEST ONE METRE CROSSING

A man goes missing on a sea crossing

by jkaye82 • 27th November 202115th January 2026

Fiction, Story Sunday

PURE HEART

A young woman concludes that her heart is not pure

by prashilan • 1st August 20215th August 2021

Arts & Culture, Books, Fiction, Reviews

BOOK REVIEW: THE END OF THE WORLD IS A CUL DE SAC

Louise Kennedy’s collection The World Is a Cul de Sac reviewed.

by JaneD • 22nd July 202122nd July 2021

Art, Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Loneliness, Loneliness Issue

FOUR COLLAGES ON LONELINESS

Four collages on loneliness

by katiehamill • 31st May 202131st May 2021

Editor's Pick, Essay Saturday, Features

Shelter in Place

An artful expression of vulnerability versus violence during isolation.

by rebeccah • 29th May 202115th January 2026

Litro Book Club, On Writing, The Litro Blog

Who is Tom Ditto: Discussion Page

Join the discussion of our current Book Club pick, Danny Wallace, Who is Tom Ditto William Boyd calls “Tremendous. Funny, beguiling and stealthily profound”.

by Litro Magazine • 10th February 201527th February 2015