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, 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 ...
A CLEAN SHAVE
Theo II’s ghost haunts me most nights, ever since I found him hanging in the stables, an ending that no doubt hastened the death of my grandfather—Sir Theo—a week later. ...
THE “JESUS LOVES ME” PAWN SHOP STORIES
The pearls had already seen much catastrophe. They were happy in the Jesus Loves Me pawn shop, reclining on navy velvet. Serene. No pressure to perform. Their previous owner navigated ...
GOING TO THE OWLS
It starts with a girl— like you and me she walked these streets once. Right here, among fallen leaves and twisted roots, she found him. She held the owl orphan ...
THE BAT
The Bat was the guest of honor at The New Yorker literary festival that year.