Editor's Pick, Fiction, Litro Shorts, Short Fiction, Story Sunday
“Hole” by Michael Matejcek
A boy wanders beyond the last finished house and into a construction trench, where childhood solitude turns into a private fantasy of being searched for.
Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Interviews, Publishing
Daniel T. O’Brien on Independent Presses, AI Slop, and What Still Gets Seen
Daniel T. O’Brien of the Independent Publishers Caucus talks to Eric Akoto about independent presses, AI slop, shrinking discoverability, booksellers, libraries and the systems that keep serious books visible.
Arts & Culture, Lifestyle, News
Litro Contributor Pablo Baler Wins 2025 New American Fiction Prize
Pablo Baler, whose story “Pearl Hunter” appeared in Litro, wins the 2025 New American Fiction Prize.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Company of Men
Monica is broke, angry and trying to file for bankruptcy without collapsing under the indignities of the day. In “Company of Men,” debt, appetite and humiliation become part of the ...
What We Keep After Love Ends
This week’s four stories move through grief, memory, awkward hope, and domestic unease each one pared back to the details that matter most.
Two Eggs in a Pot
Egg odor poisons the kitchen air, and in her mind the yolks slime the inside of her mouth, their spoiled milk taste lingering even after she’s brushed her teeth.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash
Flash Friday: Systems Under Strain (Four New Stories)
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Future Archives, Story Sunday
The Great Server Farm in the Sky
David is dead, but still online. In Natalie Paris’s story, grief unfolds inside a digital afterlife where presence remains possible — but touch, time, and escape do not.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash
Alligator
A childhood memory of an alligator returns with fresh force after a diagnosis, exposing the long afterlife of fear, shame, and paternal judgment.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash
This Toddler and Bobcat Are Best Friends
A wholesome viral animal story spirals into something much darker in this sharp satire of content culture, parental performance, and the deadly stupidity of turning everything into a post.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash
Sarah Said So
A child insists her doll is protecting her. Her mother doesn’t believe a word of it until the evidence becomes impossible to explain. A tight horror flash with a final ...
You’re OK! You’ll survive the most
A childhood memory of religious paranoia and performative certainty becomes a flash of real unease. Steve Mada’s piece captures the moment fear is handed down as truth.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales
The Other Reality
A contemporary speculative story where escape arrives in the sleek language of technology—only to become another kind of trap.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales
The Swamp
A psychologically rich story that returns to childhood, where devotion and dread grow together—and memory becomes its own terrain.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday, Uncategorised
The Question Mark
A chief neurosurgery resident marks the incision—literally a question mark—then faces an aneurysm rupture mid-operation while his wife goes into labour.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, StorySunday
Wedding
A wedding reception conversation between two strangers drifts from polite small talk into genuine connection—awkwardness as foreplay, curiosity as momentum.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash
MORNING IN LOVE
They were young. They were certain. Years later, the body remembers what the heart chose not to calculate.
Moon Goddess
Chang E runs the moon like an exhausted civil servant while the gods chase trends and the world floods the heavens with crises. A myth retold as satire: funny, sharp, ...
A Gift Across the Bus Seat
by Patricia J. Esposito
Caddie didn’t steal; she abandoned. In her right fleece pocket, she had the amethyst from the museum of lapidary art. It wasn’t her favorite, ...
How They Get You
A missing coworker. A back-room shrine. A manager who won’t explain anything. One morning shift turns into an inventory of what’s been erased and what’s about to be.