Three Stories. One Weekend. What We Carry.
Three writers. Three 150-word stories. Read the winning entries from Litro’s Flash Friday Weekend Challenge, supported by Stormtech.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash
Anthropometrics by Tim Boiteau
Flash Fiction
A crash-test dummy wakes mid-flight with no memory of the destination, no sign of the crew, and ...
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Litro Readers’ Choice 2026: Read the Ten Shortlisted Stories
Readers’ Choice 2026
Ten small fictions. One reader’s choice.
Read ...
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Men Are Swine by Annie Johnson
A woman watches her husband survive a pig-heart transplant and become stranger, colder and more practical than the man who once wrote poetry.
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A Perfect Circle – John Dennis
Three girls cross an abandoned industrial lot after leaving the detention centre. What waits there has the calm of rehearsal.
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After the hurricane – Sheila Kannappan
A dog survives the aftermath of a hurricane through scent, fear and memory, waiting for the world to smell safe again.
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, 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.
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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.
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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.
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MORNING IN LOVE
They were young. They were certain. Years later, the body remembers what the heart chose not to calculate.
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Secret
“He ate all the food, and I gained all the weight.”
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Capsule Biography Number 41 – Astrid Vasquez
A Guatemalan scholar becomes the accidental spark behind a fringe theory that claims three centuries of history never happened.
Appropriation
A suburban student reinvents himself online to get the internship he wants — and triggers a quiet chain reaction of borrowed selves.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash
Don’t Forget Your Ring
A small reminder—simple, repeated—keeps turning the knife. “Don’t Forget Your Ring” is flash fiction about memory, attachment, and what we leave behind when we go.