Anna and Reverend Gregory Green finally track down one of the lost travellers — but the reunion ends in a way neither of them ...
This week at Litro we’re publishing four stories about the moment the world tilts—softly, then all at once.
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Instead of following the removals van, Nora made her own way out of the city to her new house. It was a long drive, but much of it familiar. After ...
Having a baby changed everything. She was living in two time zones, her own and the baby’s. It was exhilarating, watching something multiply in age before her own eyes. Her ...
A dinner meant to save a marriage becomes a quiet reckoning. In Fine Dining (Aubade), every gesture — a sip, a silence, a final drive — cuts deeper than words. ...
A divorced man forms a strange bond with the burglar who keeps breaking into his home — a darkly funny meditation on loneliness, control, and dependency.
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Through glass and grace — Fleshless unravels the limits of perfection.
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In Part Two of George Cox’s mesmerising serial, the time traveller’s story takes a more unsettling turn. A photograph surfaces. A stranger disappears. And the past may not be as ...
When Tiara returns to Lagos, the city of her childhood, she is drawn back into a house heavy with memory, grief, and unspoken family truths. In The House on Campos ...
“The stranger appeared in the mist — and nothing has been the same since.”
From Part One of The Last Time-Traveller by Sir George Cox
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A fallen footballer, community service, and the struggle to find redemption. The Baller is gritty, funny, and tragic.
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On a Scottish estate, childhood football games turn into something darker. The Boys Club is a tale of friendship and betrayal, where belonging carries a price.
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A young undocumented woman trapped in modern slavery cleans hospital corridors at night. When a “doctor with the brown eyes” notices her, Ana must choose whether to trust a stranger’s ...
In “Do Your Bidding,” a dark satire of disaster capitalism, Gordon Drake profits off a nuclear meltdown by auctioning off contaminated goods—and even giraffes—under the guise of charity. Told through ...
We’re half a mile out from the White Cliffs in my Grandad’s boat. Me, Smeg, and Den, with our fishing rods and a cooler of Heineken. Refreshes the parts other ...
Rear Window meets emotional freefall in this subtle, voyeuristic portrait of love, timing, and what we see — or think we see — from across the street.
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A meditation on perception and perseverance. A woman, confronted with a fallen ant, observes its relentless effort—and sees herself drawing parallels between form, willpower, and womanhood.
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HOT SINGLES IN YOUR AREA flips the traditional stalker narrative into a biting satire of fear, desensitization, and performance. As our unnamed narrator turns dread into dinner-party anecdotes—and eventually stand-up ...
Dinosaurs. Poets. A care home field trip to hell. ‘Triassic Abbey’ is what happens when satire out-evolves extinction.
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She forgot something—was it a grocery item or her old life?
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