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Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash
A SISYPHEAN EXILE
She is obsessed with storms.
WE’RE PROMISED RAIN
Old photographs of a married couple fade away on a living room mantel.
KEEPING UP WITH MYSELF, KEEPING UP WITH YOU
Years ago, I used to star my nails with moons . . .
VIETNAMESE GUY AT THE NAIL SALON
The Vietnamese guy at the nail salon asks me how my day’s going. I sit down and smile politely answering proudly in flawless German “alles gut, und dir?”
FridayFlash, Interviews, Writing Fuel
A Flash of Inspiration: “It Wasn’t For Me” by Katy Ward
Welcome to Litro’s A Flash of Inspiration series! Once a month we will select a flash fiction or short story submission that we find especially intriguing and run a brief ...
CONCENTRIC CIRCLES
Tom wasn’t keen, but there was no choice near the jetty before we caught the tour boat.
MY LIFE AS THE WIFE OF HARRISON FORD
I was heading toward the frozen-food aisle, my mind filled with visions of chicken nuggets, when I bumped into something — hard. When I turned to see what I had ...
WANDERING STARS
Manual labor suited Kiichi best. After the Great Kantō earthquake of 1923 killed his wife and young daughter, he ended up in Kobe and worked at the port as a ...
OUR TOURIST
Our tourist stood at the street corner. They didn’t know how to get to where they were going and were too scared to ask us for help.
The wind blew their ...
EMILY, ANECHOIC
The anechoic chamber lay at the heart of six concrete onion layers, a nesting of rooms within rooms, each room with twelve-inch thick walls. The chamber made no contact with ...
LONGING
How strange to think of life in your bedroom, staring at the wall, or at the kitchen window, waiting for the kettle to boil; to remember dark days after work, ...
STOP MAKING SENSE
I took the last picture I still have of you with a cracked old Polaroid we found at a yard sale in Andersonville.
NO MAN’S LAND
His bottle’s gone. His power.
He turns towards The Lovely Adrienne to tell her: stall them, feed them a line. Too late, she’s already in the ring, her feathers sweeping the ...
JFK
So the plane is landing and I’m sitting next to my friend Sara who is going to NYU — in business class, mind you — we got upgraded — and ...
ROSIE GOLDSTEIN WAS A DOG
In the fourth grade, boys in the town of Huntington Harbor started to notice which girls were getting tits and who looked like Farrah Fawcett. They divided the girls into ...
LOVE-YOU-LOTS
He’s got that new song by The Streets stuck in his head, the one with the music video filmed up the road in Chicken Village. Mike thrums his fingertips on ...
SHAMU CAM
Shamu Cam came live from Shamu’s tank at Sea World, Orlando….
SCREAM QUEEN
Her screams were top shelf. The kind of earsplitting, blood-curdling shrieks that cut to the marrow, leaving you dazed and numb.
THE SNAKE
I once lived in a three-bedroom unit in an elegant condominium with white paint in Simei, in Singapore.
TIME TRAVELING UNCLE
He first disappears just before I am born. I have no memory of it, of course, but my mom still wears it years later like a lead vest, releasing a ...