A tick bite. A worried mother. A woman thirty-four weeks pregnant. And a baby who has other plans.
“Ticks” by Lauren Alonso Miller.
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A stolen bus. A probation office. A baby sensory class.
Andy Carter’s “Under Supervision” is this week’s Essay Saturday.
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A yellow pee bucket. Two open bags. A backpack through a window. And a fifteen-year-old who speaks fluent eviction.
“Pee Bucket” by Áine Greaney.
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Three stories. One weekend. What we carry.
Before: a photograph before an earthquake.
After: an empty town and a hungry cat.
Through: a child beneath a storm.
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Featuring @JemiTheKey
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A missing hitchhiker. A girl who survived a catastrophic fall. A teenager terrified of wanting the wrong thing. And one road that might finally take her somewhere else.
This week’s #StorySunday, “A Pilgrimage” by Emily Ann Zisko.
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150 words. Three backpacks. One weekend.
Write what stayed with you.
A journey. A place. An object. A moment of weather.
Three winners. Three pieces published by Litro.
Closes Sunday, 11:59pm UK
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Our latest edition, FUTURE ARCHIVES features Yimin Xiang, Paul Majek & Makiko Harris, exploring what we inherit, preserve and choose leave behind.
Discover the edition and conversations with the artists here: litromagazine.com/future-arc…
Pre-order the print edition now for £20.
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September starts with Litro reading again.
Submissions are open and Breaking Borders II, our World Series 2027 edition, is now accepting fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art and audio.
Ten years on: what divides us now?
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One of the six places on our October Submission Sprint is free.
We’d especially like it to reach a younger Black writer who might not otherwise be able to take part.
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A Buddhist teacher. A teenage girl who thinks her ex is watching her. A Burberry bag nobody really wants. And one walk home that turns everything upside down.
#StorySunday “Master & Disciple” | Niall Kaye.
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No one can say when it sets off.
This week’s #FlashFriday is “Time of Passage” by Jonathan Vidgop, translated by Leo Shtutin.
A bus journey. A sleeping driver. An unfamiliar stop.
Read now at Litro:
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Readers’ Choice 2026 is closed.
Heike Rentel’s “Changing Tides” is the story readers chose — a quiet, tidal piece about work, pressure and change already underway.
Read the winning story:
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A naked stranger asks for water. A memorial is hours away. Elizabeth Cohen’s “The Options” turns grief, guilt and privilege into a series of impossible choices.
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Voting for Litro Readers' Choice closes this Sunday.
Discover the ten stories that explore grief, desire, memory, ecological rupture, private dread and the strange pressures of ordinary life. Choose the story that moved you the most.
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The Litro Readers’ Choice 2026 shortlist is live.
Ten stories. Now the choice belongs to our readers.
Read the shortlist and choose the story that stays with you:
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How many deaths can you absorb before leaving begins to feel like the responsible choice?
“The End of the World” by Caroline Taylor, new #TuesdayTales from Litro.
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Three girls.
A gap in the fence.
An unlit yard.
A circle closing.
Read “A Perfect Circle”, this week’s darker Flash Friday closer.
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They see an old woman to be managed.
Constance still sees everything.
“Constance” by Peter Arscott. via @LitroMagazine
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This week’s #StorySunday is now live.
At ninety, Constance Burridge knows exactly what the world thinks it sees: confusion, decline, an old woman to be managed.
She has other ideas.
“Constance” by Peter Arscott.
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“The tacit knowledge is probably more important than the codified knowledge.”
Tony Raven, former Chief Executive of Cambridge Enterprise, on AI, trust, digital memory and E. M. Forster’s The Machine Stops.
New from Litro’s Future Archives:
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