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.
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.
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.
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.
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, short story, Story Sunday, StorySunday
What Constitutes a Good Day These Days
A day at the playground turns—small social misfires, a lost child, then a spiral at home—as a son tries to keep his daughter safe while his father’s world breaks apart.
Moon Goddess
Chang E runs the moon like an exhausted civil servant while the gods chase trends and the world floods the heavens with crises. A myth retold as satire: funny, sharp, ...
A Gift Across the Bus Seat
by Patricia J. Esposito
Caddie didn’t steal; she abandoned. In her right fleece pocket, she had the amethyst from the museum of lapidary art. It wasn’t her favorite, ...
How They Get You
A missing coworker. A back-room shrine. A manager who won’t explain anything. One morning shift turns into an inventory of what’s been erased and what’s about to be.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
I’M NOT HERE
A breakup, pills, and a bar booth: Griffin’s body starts disappearing as he tries to reach the person he can’t let go of.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales
Pearl Hunter
A pearl diver dreams the sea from a clinic bed — a surreal flash where the body, memory, and darkness converge.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales
Illinois
A basement party, cheap beer, and a night that turns irreversible — a sharp, propulsive story of adolescence and consequence.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales
ANTI Gravity calls
A ghostly neighbor delivers an unsolicited critique — not vandalism, but editorial precision — in a flash essay about art, judgment, and being seen.
Big Top
A great deal told in few words.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, StorySunday
Pompeblêden
In the frozen quiet of Friesland, a farmer waits for the canals to harden — and for his son to return.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash
BURNED
A refugee dinner in postwar New York becomes a haunting reckoning with class, memory, and survival.