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A Time of Desire

Orla started seeing Dan in secret. Hotel afternoons. Dan the man, was well off. Orla, not so much poor as unpractised in the pleasure of ...

by JayMerill | June 5, 2015April 23, 2019
Fiction, StorySunday

Elise in Croatia

Kamelija meets her at the little airport in Zagreb. She is driving a beat-up VW Passat with no driver’s side mirror. They squeeze Elise’s suitcase ...

by Leah Browning | May 31, 2015April 23, 2019
Fiction, FridayFlash

Red Letter Day

Amelia lies back against the cool cotton, splaying hands like white spindles. Continue Reading Red Letter Day

by Tracy Fells | May 29, 2015April 23, 2019
Fiction, StorySunday

The Son of Lee Van Cleef

I wanted to tell her all of this, but when I tried to speak I had no answer for the gorilla. Instead I let my ...

by Andrew Davie | May 24, 2015April 23, 2019
Fiction

Like a String

Leo wished he could tell his son how sometimes a thing like love can hurt too much, how it is like a string that vibrates, ...

by Neil Carpathios | May 20, 2015April 23, 2019
Fiction, StorySunday

The Witness

The pitiful creature has been caught in a net of his own design. See how he struggles and gets more tangled up. It’s too much ...

by Brian Coughlan | May 17, 2015April 23, 2019
Fiction, FridayFlash

Breath

“It shouldn’t be exposed like this,” she’d whisper. “We’re supposed to be ignorant. It works best that way.” Continue Reading Breath

by Anniken Blomberg | May 15, 2015April 23, 2019
Fiction

Neighborly Class

It is a little stunted, and the kernels are not always plumped out like fresh pillows, but it does well enough as bulk cattle feed, ...

by Ken Poyner | May 13, 2015April 23, 2019
Fiction, StorySunday

The Bridge

There were a handful of minor rules and two major ones: don’t cross the rope bridge without a Scout Master present and do not cross ...

by Timothy Judd | May 10, 2015April 23, 2019
Fiction, FridayFlash

Convergence

I dislike the shift in speed induced by Earth’s gravity, the subtle but recognizable odor of decay and the gust of freshened air that’s puffed ...

by Andrea Rothman | May 8, 2015April 24, 2019
Fiction

The Staircase

Now disheveled like an old beauty in her tattered dressing gown. Gravel disorderly mixed with dirt, gnawed hedges. Continue Reading The Staircase

by Toti O'Brien | May 6, 2015April 24, 2019
Fiction, StorySunday

Buitre

We also watched scorpions making their determined way on the sand or across the road, and in the evening, we walked with our heads bent ...

by Alan Gerstle | May 3, 2015April 24, 2019
Fiction, FridayFlash

It Starts With Video Games

‘Yates types the names of the websites from the Visa bill and his browser is flooded with flesh. So many scenarios, inside, outside, by the ...

by Jennifer Falkner | May 1, 2015April 24, 2019
Fiction

All Us, Children

On the day we met, you wore an oversized poncho with dungarees and yellow, rubber boots. Continue Reading All Us, Children

by Eric-Anderson Momou | April 29, 2015April 24, 2019
Fiction, The Litro Blog

US Student, Katherine Liu, Winner of the 2015 Litro & IGGY Young Writers Prize

In youth we were thunder-bringing, earth-shaking, feather-footed kids. We lived in the suburbs, all those perfect houses in rows and all their perfectly manicured lawns, ...

by Litro | April 26, 2015April 24, 2019
Fiction, FridayFlash

Lost Cargo

‘He is lying on a tongue of a leviathan—sinking into the stomach lining of a whale. Swallowed whole. ‘ In the belly of a whale ...

by Sef Hughes | April 24, 2015April 24, 2019
Fiction

Battle of the Abuelas

She did not know how to drive. That is what her sons said after the fact, but this did not stop her from driving the ...

by Lynn Wiley Grant | April 23, 2015April 24, 2019
Fiction

The Blame Game

When my mother burned the bife acebolado, she blamed it on the magical prankster Saci. Continue Reading The Blame Game

by Patricia Esposito | April 21, 2015April 24, 2019
Fiction, StorySunday

Cenote

The air-conditioned shuttle jerked through traffic on overbuilt thoroughfares into a safe, pathetically normal tourist Mecca. Continue Reading Cenote

by Embe Charpentier | April 19, 2015April 24, 2019
Fiction

Penelope Thinks She Remembers Her Father

I wasn’t scared as I felt the world tipping, carrying me tightly at its side. I heard the splash, the cool water wrapping itself around ...

by Andrea Witzke Slot | April 18, 2015April 24, 2019

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