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Gliberty Glop – Harry Pearse
A password, a doorway and two people who think they are playing entirely different games.
The Golden Nugget
A found stone gives an isolated schoolboy the courage to invent a royal past. As the lie carries him into adulthood, its weight begins to change.
Fiction, Flash Friday, 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 ...
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.
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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Editor's Pick, Essay, Essay Saturday, Features
THE FURTHEST ONE METRE CROSSING
A man goes missing on a sea crossing
PURE HEART
A young woman concludes that her heart is not pure
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.
Art, Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Loneliness, Loneliness Issue
FOUR COLLAGES ON LONELINESS
Four collages on loneliness
Editor's Pick, Essay Saturday, Features
Shelter in Place
An artful expression of vulnerability versus violence during isolation.
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”.