“You should have stayed at home today, not be in a car with the heater on, waiting in a layby for your spare phone to ring. You should have remembered ...
“Mine and Rebecca’s love was born under a cloud of MDMA and that’s where it stayed for 75 days. Not that she’s figured that out yet.” Continue ...
“For the thousandth time, well before first light, you walk the ancient track through the forest, the place where you and Spike used to come nearly every weekend when you ...
“A calm face on a pillow with reddened hair tucked back. The boy aims for the eye behind its plum casing and slams the hand down, once, cracking through orbital ...
“Oh how I love thee. Let me count the ways: seven milligrams, fourteen milligrams, twenty-one milligrams…” Love, addiction, obsession and nicotine patches collide in this sinister little tale by Ewan ...
“This morning Donna’s life fell down. She was at the shop when it happened, the corner shop run by the Chowdry family” Continue Reading 30% Off
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“And high in the sky Orion the hunter wakes up and discovers his belt is gone.” Two children encounter Orion’s belt and play unaware that above them, the giant ...
“The sight of them makes me shrink away from my window, draping the curtain around me for protection.” Continue Reading When Sunflowers Turn Bad
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“You wanna hear this funny story, D??????? I’m studying languages these days as like my fifth hobby” A young artist writes a stream of consciousness letter to one of her ...
“He stood on the hill looking down onto the plain and tried to imagine the ghosts of the Champa but instead could hear only the cries of tropical insects in ...
“His goal to impress her with wit and initiative had dissolved into caffeine, melatonin, alcohol and self-doubt.”
A whirlwind business trip leaves a new employee dazzled and deflated. ...
‘I’ve never seen anything like it.’ She heard a thump-thump. ‘I swear it’s purring.’
A strange and beautiful moss-like creature slowly invades the Antarctic while the curious researchers ...
“What, you wonder, would Derrida make of that?”
A wistful meditation on memory and life by Christina Sanders Continue Reading Grass
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Childhood memories vividly recalled in this contemplative piece by Zvezdana Rashkovich. Continue Reading Melody of Rainfall in the Balkans
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A faithful wife donates an eye to help her blinded husband. But was her sacrifice in vain? Continue Reading The Store-Bought Table
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“We sit down at the table by the window and before Mom asks, I say I want a strawberry milkshake. She could’ve remembered by now, I always want the same.” ...
A young girl asserts her independence after the accidental death of her cousin. Continue Reading Trick of the Light
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Meet Litro Online’s new Flash Fiction Editor Jennifer Harvey and find out what she looks for in a great piece of flash fiction. Continue Reading Introducing Jennifer Harvey ...
Karen was part of our severance package. We were going to have a meeting with her each week. Karen was small and determined and her spiky blond hair looked like ...
I wanted my job, but my job didn’t want me, and after they fired me, I had to leave certain items off my grocery list. Continue Reading Through ...
