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.
Heart
A heart-shaped artwork made from Katrina debris sends one woman back into the heat, fear, and improvisation of trying to flee New Orleans before the storm.
The Nest
On the sensitivities and cruel memories of youth.
Pigeon
On a London Underground journey home from a clinic, a young woman sits beside her mother, caught between exhaustion, memory and the threat of being sent back to Mexico. When ...
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.
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Company of Men
Monica is broke, angry and trying to file for bankruptcy without collapsing under the indignities of the day. In “Company of Men,” debt, appetite and humiliation become part of the ...
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The Great Server Farm in the Sky
David is dead, but still online. In Natalie Paris’s story, grief unfolds inside a digital afterlife where presence remains possible — but touch, time, and escape do not.