Tag: fiction

Editor's Pick, Fiction, short story, Writing Fuel

Tomato

It was two perhaps three hours before she straightened up to get her breath back and started back with a yelp – a large fox was crouching on the roof ...

by sarahdavies • May 13, 2024May 13, 2024

Editor's Pick, Litro #184: Memory, Print Issues

Litro: the Memory Issue #184

Litro’s Summer Issue ruminates on memory: of past relationships, childhoods, and the C-who-shall-not-be-named pandemic of 2020 to 2022.

by Litro • September 27, 2023September 27, 2023

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday

The Last Time He Bowed

“He felt completely alone in that car, under that man’s hateful gaze.” Today’s #StorySunday USA is “The Last Time He Bowed” by Thomas Lee.

by Thomas Lee • February 12, 2023February 12, 2023

Read our Five Best Small Fictions nominees!

Picture credit: Jason Leung By turns surreal, familiar, inventive and astonishingly written – immerse yourself in these five stories that we are delighted to nominate for Best Small Fictions 2023! ...

by Farhana Khalique • February 3, 2023February 3, 2023

READ OUR SIX PUSHCART PRIZE NOMINEES!

Dive into these spellbinding stories from our writers who have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize!

by Litro • January 25, 2023January 26, 2023

Fox in the Snow

“I feel like a character in a fantasy novel living in some snowy village. Trading our goods, listening to stories. .” Today’s #StorySunday USA is “Fox in the Snow” by ...

by Yurina Yoshikawa • January 22, 2023February 6, 2023

Mink Coat

Today’s Story Sunday USA takes us to 1940s Seattle, for a tale of two sisters and resiliency.

by Brian Giddens • December 18, 2022December 14, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday

Between the Ground and Sky

Toward the end, Ben had taken to carrying a photo of himself in his wallet. On the surface, he knew it seemed an act of extreme and unfounded vanity but, ...

by Andie Weber • October 9, 2022October 14, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday

Dead and Gone

Back inside the tavern, the dining room had grown dark and empty except for a handful of guests at the far end of the bar where a muted green light ...

by Kelly Piner • October 2, 2022October 14, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, short story, Story Sunday, StorySunday

Urgent

“There aren’t any seats left and standing people have already taken up a lot of the wall space. I stand in front of a table pushed against the corner.”

by Lauren Baker • September 25, 2022September 12, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday

Notes of Improvement on Parisian Trains

“Empty, she wrote, even though it wasn’t an improvement, because sometimes she just wrote what she saw.”

by Graham Marema • September 18, 2022September 12, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

Meditations of a Mermaid

This used to be a safe place

by Holly Hagman • April 1, 2022March 22, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

The Burning Chill

Photo by Eric Wahlforss One day a hole fell into a man. The hole, which had known only cold ground, took an immediate liking to the soft warm insides of ...

by Bob Thurber • March 25, 2022March 23, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

Means of Conveyance

Photo by Nate Lampa I can’t remember if the bench was wooden or metal or painted or plastic-coated or anything. Nor how it was structured—slatted throughout? A latticed back? A ...

by Ryan Pollard • March 11, 2022March 12, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

Black Shirt in the Middle

Photo by Sophie Louisnard The rusted pickup truck parked outside ends your pursuit; you pause in the doorway, your eyes adjust to the haze and track the room, past the jukebox, ...

by ANNE ANTHONY • March 4, 2022March 5, 2022