editor's pck, Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash, Litro USA
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.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday, Uncategorised
The Question Mark
A chief neurosurgery resident marks the incision—literally a question mark—then faces an aneurysm rupture mid-operation while his wife goes into labour.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash
MORNING IN LOVE
They were young. They were certain. Years later, the body remembers what the heart chose not to calculate.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash
Secret
“He ate all the food, and I gained all the weight.”
Arts & Culture, Fiction, short story
Locker Room Love Story
“I like how his skin feels on mine, but I do not know him at all.” Hear from the “other woman” as she faces the morality of her affair.
Digital Subscriptions, Litro #184: Memory, Print Issues
Tuscany! Tuscany!
"We were no longer young." GC Perry sets the violent breakdown of a marriage in the warmth and magnificence of Tuscany's countryside.
To access this ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
The Road to Methuselah Spring
A blizzard swept through New England on the night Gretchen and I arrived, throwing our marriage into question and quickening a slow process of separation which had already been ...
Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
THE JANUS DOOR
A grieving woman learns to look both backwards and forwards
Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash
A SWIM
A woman’s morning swim is disrupted by her ex
Editor's Pick, Fiction, StorySunday
THE PLANETS
A man reevaluates his relationships.
SYCHOSIS
It was difficult for Myra to chop vegetables without the knife she’d driven into her husband’s back. Carrots, potatoes, onions, all ready on the worktop, but her good knife was ...
Admittance
We had no choice but to sign the admittance papers. We saw no other alternative. When there’s something medically wrong – especially when it’s your child – you must trust ...
Becoming Samantha
They took away my clothes, the white raincoat that was an exact copy of Samantha’s, the red woollen dress like the one in her closet and the shoes, bag, and ...