Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

This Toddler and Bobcat Are Best Friends

A wholesome viral animal story spirals into something much darker in this sharp satire of content culture, parental performance, and the deadly stupidity of turning everything into a post.

by Litro Editorial • March 13, 2026June 5, 2026

Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Essays

What’s Known in November

Explore the captivating dance of nature in this poignant essay.

by heatherbartos • November 24, 2023November 24, 2023

Digital Subscriptions, Litro #184: Memory, Print Issues

Finding Flow

"In going with the flow of the river, perhaps I would rediscover my own." A fluid essay exploring memory, nature, and rivers. To access this ...

by sammyp • September 27, 2023September 27, 2023

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

Singularity

The fate of a beloved snail, who might be the last of their kind.

by mandy-suzanne • April 24, 2022April 9, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

This Way

In the sunlight of the boat he is a sepia photograph, a ghost from another century with vanished eyebrows and blue eyes like clean cuts that blink just once when ...

by bethan • April 10, 2022April 11, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

TASSILI

Travellers returning to Earth in 2320 discover a changed landscape

by emiliasunico • December 3, 2021December 3, 2021

Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday

THE HEAT OF THE MOUNTAIN

On a father’s warmth

by moliff • November 13, 2021November 13, 2021

Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

YEAR OF THE LIZARD

Siblings find an iguana in a snowbank

by brettbbl • November 12, 2021November 12, 2021

Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

OUT OF THE WOODS

On letting the water figure everything out for you

by kqa • November 5, 2021November 5, 2021

Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

FOREST FIRE

A boy is desperate to save his cat from a fire

by yehezkielf • October 29, 2021October 29, 2021

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Nature Issue

CHRYSALIS

A new recruit learns that her company’s environmental policies may not be so sound

by rwest • October 28, 2021October 28, 2021

Editor's Pick, Essays, Nature Issue

SEEING GHOSTS

On a river journey, a woman reckons that the earth remembers what our history forgets

by hzlasher • October 28, 2021October 28, 2021

Editor's Pick, Essays, Nature Issue

A LANDSCAPE OF WINGS

Encounters with birds structure this reflection on life and travel

by orman day • October 25, 2021October 25, 2021

Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

BIRTH

A visit to a museum of natural history leads to a life-changing decision

by maroclaire • October 22, 2021October 22, 2021

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Nature Issue

CROONER

After the Cataclysm, when most humans have mutated, a crooner croons

by jttownley • October 20, 2021October 20, 2021

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Nature Issue

DISTANCE

A honeymoon in the Philippines capsizes

by Litro Magazine • October 19, 2021October 20, 2021

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Nature Issue

THE SMOKE ECLIPSE

A family braces for a world that seems to be heading toward apocalypse.

by thomas s lee • October 18, 2021January 24, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

SKYWRITING

On turning away from Capitalist messaging

by gabriellegriffis • October 15, 2021October 15, 2021

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Nature Issue

ZHARA’S CHOICE

Female game wardens defend wildlife from poachers

by tomreynolds396 • October 13, 2021October 13, 2021

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Nature Issue

THE SWAMP THING AND THE FIRE GOD

Something emerges from a swamp

by jasmina62442 • October 12, 2021October 12, 2021