Constantinople’s Jacket
In “Constantinople’s Jacket,” Álvaro Enrigue turns corporate certification into a sharp, absurd and brutal satire of workplace obedience. Translated by Diego Gómez Pickering, the story follows an office swallowed by ...
The Nest
On the sensitivities and cruel memories of youth.
Pigeon
On a London Underground journey home from a clinic, a young woman sits beside her mother, caught between exhaustion, memory and the threat of being sent back to Mexico. When ...
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.
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 ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash
Flash Friday: Systems Under Strain (Four New Stories)
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash, Future Archives
Alaska Was Just Incredible
The passengers of the Sea Glass believe they are ordinary. What follows is a fast, savage story in which environmental catastrophe breaks through the polished script of eco-tourism.
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 ...
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, Uncategorised
Take a Minute
After twenty years of failed deals and near misses, a senior accountant confronts the arithmetic of ambition — and the cost of never quite closing.
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.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash
Secret
“He ate all the food, and I gained all the weight.”
Editor's Pick, Fiction, short story, Story Sunday, StorySunday
What Constitutes a Good Day These Days
A day at the playground turns—small social misfires, a lost child, then a spiral at home—as a son tries to keep his daughter safe while his father’s world breaks apart.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday
Guns, Ink and Smiles
One tattoo. One smile. A whole chain of assumptions—and the biology underneath them.