Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, FridayFlash

Our Best Small Fictions Nominations 2024

It is a pleasure to announce Litro’s nominations for the annual Best Small Fictions anthology. Congratulations to this year’s nominees. Continue Reading Our Best Small Fictions Nominations 2024

by Litro Magazine • January 13, 2024January 13, 2024

Editor's Pick, FridayFlash

Winter

In this wintry poem, Diana delves into her childhood Christmases: loss, reinvention, and belonging. Continue Reading Winter

by Diana Radovan • December 28, 2023December 28, 2023

Fiction, FridayFlash

He Heard the Book Giveth Wisdom and Ate It

Quirkiness meets tradition amidst the whimsical chaos of Mierenhoop’s Fête de l’Âne, with Olivia, Santa the donkey, and a reluctant Uncle Ryan. A festive flash fiction. Continue Reading ...

by David Sherman • December 18, 2023December 18, 2023

Fiction, FridayFlash

Invisible Wings

Family trauma, China’s turbulent history, and the specter of death. ‘Invisible Wings’: a tale of survival, resilience, and magic. Continue Reading Invisible Wings

by Kevin Brown • December 7, 2023December 7, 2023

Fiction, FridayFlash

Pinnacle

Experience the chilling beauty of ‘Pinnacle’ as winter’s grasp embraces high peaks, stirring reflections on life’s seasons. A stirring piece of flash. Continue Reading Pinnacle

by Francis Flavin • December 6, 2023December 6, 2023

Arts & Culture, Fiction, FridayFlash

To Live in a Name

Dive into a world where the floor turns to snow, and auroras light up the sky. Lekha’s winter dreamscape unfolds in a tale of friendship, longing, and self-discovery. ...

by Devaki Devay • December 1, 2023December 1, 2023

Editor's Pick, FridayFlash

Demeter Stages an Intervention

Demeter takes Persephone to concerts, cooking classes, pottery lessons. If she keeps throwing new possibilities up in the air like confetti, something will stick. Happiness will get caught under Persephone’s ...

by Pauline Holdsworth • October 7, 2022October 4, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

Insomnia

Even after all these years, he couldn’t believe it’d happened while he was asleep. Curled up under the sheets, knees tucked. He never heard the screech of brakes, the impact ...

by VINCENT CZYZ • June 3, 2022June 10, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

Mardi Gras

FAT TUESDAY I’m six or seven, and we’re standing on Canal Street, my dad, mom and sister, who’s too young to remember any of this.  It’s late February but so ...

by Louis Gallo • May 27, 2022May 13, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

The Staten Island Hanger

We knew about the Staten Island Hanger, everyone did, sitting on its own on a large lot near the New York Harbor, like you could bring something up from the ...

by Gil Kaplan • May 20, 2022May 19, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

Florida, 1993

They flew into Miami at night and decided to go straight to the hotel. They were both hungry but too tired to look for a place to eat. They had ...

by Leah Browning • May 13, 2022May 11, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

Slow Train in Winter

The trees are shades; hovering ghosts.  I’m going to see my mother in her village. The compartment is warm; my wife is asleep. I can almost go to sleep myself. ...

by Robin Wyatt Dunn • April 29, 2022April 28, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

This Week’s Post (Moleskin Notepad, Box of Biros)

I got you a notepad, son. You were always doodling and jotting things down. The pages of this one aren’t lined in case you want to doodle freely, but it ...

by Neil Clark • April 8, 2022April 7, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

Meditations of a Mermaid

This used to be a safe place Continue Reading Meditations of a Mermaid

by Holly Hagman • April 1, 2022March 22, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

The Burning Chill

One day a hole fell into a man. The hole, which had known only cold ground, took an immediate liking to the soft warm insides of the man, while the ...

by Bob Thurber • March 25, 2022March 23, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

MICROFICTIONS

Four microfictions that dig into familial relationships in unexpected ways Continue Reading MICROFICTIONS

by Leo Boix • March 18, 2022March 16, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

VOICES/VANISHING/READING THIS, MY BODY

Reading this, my body Continue Reading VOICES/VANISHING/READING THIS, MY BODY

by Denise André • March 11, 2022March 10, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

Means of Conveyance

I can’t remember if the bench was wooden or metal or painted or plastic-coated or anything. Nor how it was structured—slatted throughout? A latticed back? A solid seat? No matter. ...

by Ryan Pollard • March 11, 2022March 12, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

Black Shirt in the Middle

The rusted pickup truck parked outside ends your pursuit; you pause in the doorway, your eyes adjust to the haze and track the room, past the jukebox, past the all-you-can-eat ...

by ANNE ANTHONY • March 4, 2022March 5, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

FOR GRACE AFTER 9 P.M.

A lover makes a plea Continue Reading FOR GRACE AFTER 9 P.M.

by Sean Ennis • February 13, 2022February 13, 2022