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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday, flash-friday, Uncategorised
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday, flash-friday
Five pieces of flash published by Litro in 2026, selected to go forward for consideration for the Best Small Fictions 2026–27 double edition.
In a crowded family home in Allahabad, a grandmother slowly cooks gajar halwa while a girl begins to understand what her mother survived before she became her mother.
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, 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, Writing Advice, Writing Fuel
Fiction, Short Fiction, Tuesday Tales
Arts & Culture, Books, Interviews
Gaby Wood of the Booker Prize Foundation speaks to Litro about short fiction, reading habits, time, cost, distraction, libraries, bookshops and why stories can still help people feel less alone.
Flash Friday, flash-friday, Short Fiction
Milicent’s head is covered with live butterflies. Once mocked in acting class, she has become impossible to look away from.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
From over 200 anonymous submissions, five stories were shortlisted for The Odds Are In. We’re pleased to announce AKALA AKA by Anselme Eme as the winner.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
William, a Jonah, an orphan, friendless, homeless, poor, trying to survive in a fishing village turned tourist town. Bleak, honest, real.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
An intuitive and resonant piece on grief and how a death makes us question what we are and what we know.
Unusual, compelling, story about a stone mason’s apprentice fulfilling his own vision in the absence of his master, and his murder when the master returns.
Serial Fiction, Story Sunday, The Last Time-Traveller
This week at Litro we’re publishing four stories about the moment the world tilts—softly, then all at once.