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The Edge of the World
A husband clings to a final journey to the place that once made them feel alive, while his wife quietly begins to imagine the world after him.
Love, again
A woman measures the afterlife of a relationship in trains, songs, memory, and the stubborn mathematics of longing.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Technology
Breath of Life
A granddaughter takes a forbidden drug from the dark web to give her grandmother one last taste of life. Julia Fausing’s story explores love, risk, and the price of mortality.
There Has Been a Drop in Your Connection
“We jigsaw your texts with your search history and disapprove of the picture it makes.” A series of search engine failures tells today’s Tuesday Tale.
Editor's Pick, Flash Friday, Technology
A ghost inside can make Scorpio and Taurus very happy
A ghost inside can make Scorpio and Taurus very happy’ is about love and connection, making jokes and making a cake, a delicious chocolate cake that has, surprise surprise, a ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Where Are You From?
“Everything… is slow and quiet… familiar yet unfamiliar to Fai and Cheong.” Today’s #StorySunday is “Where Are You From?” by by Flo Au.
The Painful Love and Gratifying Hatred
A young mother reflects on the currents that pass through families, as she tucks her child to sleep.
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Essay Saturday, Features
Mondegreen
An essay about the idea of love.
After the Break
How does a marriage work? An incisive tale about modern love.
Love Departed
I was twelve when Dad passed away. Bhaiya was the closest I had to a father for the greater part of my life. Losing him was like losing my father ...
Book Review: The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
Seventeenth-century Amsterdam is vividly brought to life in this this entertaining debut novel.
Finding Love in the City of Film
The vibrant city of Bradford, the world’s first-ever city of film, is a great place to meet like-minded people and explore the rich and creative heritage together.
This Gallery
We reached an understanding as I stared into one of Turner’s stormier seascapes. You came up behind me, tucked two icy fingers into the soft warmth at the inside of ...
Short Stories: The Last Girlfriend On Earth by Simon Rich
From his author picture, Simon Rich looks pretty happy (even if his mum probably made him wear a tie). Who wouldn’t be: three books, five screenplays, he used to work ...
Lily
We walked across the street to the park. Some of our number dropped back, heading to the pub. They claimed they were too manly to go any longer without beer, ...
The Winners: Litro‘s #ThisIsNotLove Flash Fiction Competition
The winners of our #ThisIsNotLove flash fiction competition are, in order: Melinda Salisbury with “Parthian Shot”, Matthew Smart with “The Sump Pit”, and Peter Spencer with “Lovecats”.
The Top 10 Weirdest Relationships in Literature
Cross-dressing, sodomy, blood-sucking and a touch of necrophilia. In this feature, novelist Rosie Garland picks her top ten weirdest relationships in literature. “The edge of things has always interested me ...
Green Water
The path to the water is long and winding, cutting down past the bakery through the olive groves as the scent from lemon trees floats on the wind. For a ...
Paper Cuts
Aubrey Finkle once told his wife that Origami was an act of love, turning a simple sheet of paper into something with form and meaning. How fragile the paper shapes, ...
Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairytales: Not Always Happy, But True.
Rachel Rose Reid enchanted her audience with a refreshing interpretation of our best-loved fairytales in her show, I’m Hans Christian Anderson, last Friday at the Leicester Square Theatre as part of ...