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.
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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.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash, Short Fiction, short story
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.
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.
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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.
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, 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.
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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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LAST LINE — Bethany Bruno
A woman removes obsolete roadside call boxes for the state. But inside the metal shells, people have left what they couldn’t say out loud — and one small object turns ...
Devil’s Teeth
Out past the headland, an old fisherman rows against the pull of the tide and his own life’s weight. In Devil’s Teeth, Gerri Brightwell renders the sea as both adversary ...
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BURNED
A refugee dinner in postwar New York becomes a haunting reckoning with class, memory, and survival.
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Our Best Small Fictions Nominations 2024
It is a pleasure to announce Litro’s nominations for the annual Best Small Fictions anthology. Congratulations to this year’s nominees.
He Heard the Book Giveth Wisdom and Ate It
Quirkiness meets tradition amidst the whimsical chaos of Mierenhoop’s Fête de l’Âne, with Olivia, Santa the donkey, and a reluctant Uncle Ryan. A festive flash fiction.
Invisible Wings
Family trauma, China’s turbulent history, and the specter of death. ‘Invisible Wings’: a tale of survival, resilience, and magic.
Pinnacle
Experience the chilling beauty of ‘Pinnacle’ as winter’s grasp embraces high peaks, stirring reflections on life’s seasons. A stirring piece of flash.
Arts & Culture, Fiction, FridayFlash
To Live in a Name
Dive into a world where the floor turns to snow, and auroras light up the sky. Lekha’s winter dreamscape unfolds in a tale of friendship, longing, and self-discovery.
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René Magritte’s The Banquet
Dorothy Lune's flash piece gives voice to a vibrant René Magritte painting, pushing the boundaries between words and visual arts.
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