Litro Magazine

07/12/2025

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Help Shape the 2026 Litro World Series Vote for the next city we spotlight in our global storytelling journey. One vote per reader. Let your city be heard. Cast Your Vote Opens in a new tab. Litro is planning our next global storytelling destination — and you can help choose where we go. Pick the ...

02/12/2025

A Montréal linguist, a Philadelphia writer, a python called Eddie and one video call that shrinks a whole romance down to a single sentence.

In Steel Wool by Eleanor Levine, online desire collides with body image, politics and long-distance fantasy, with humour sharp enough to scratch glass.

Read it now on Litro: https://www.litromagazine.com/usa/2025/12/steel-wool/

01/12/2025

"I owe Tom Stoppard a debt measured in time.”

News of his death sent me back to one afternoon in the London Library, when he stopped what he was doing, turned towards me and simply listened. No performance, no sermon – just time, given freely to a stranger.

I’ve written a short homage to that moment, and to the quiet decency behind it:
A Debt Measured in Time: Remembering Tom Stoppard
https://www.litromagazine.com/editors-pick/a-debt-measured-in-time-remembering-tom-stoppard/

30/11/2025

Lyrical, restrained, fable-tinted: The Little Green Huntsman https://bit.ly/4ou4eOP the line where folklore becomes a rule you can’t ignore.
By Sean Flood via Litro Magazine

30/11/2025

Compressed, luminous, and precise: Visiting Hours https://www.litromagazine.com/editors-pick/visiting-hours/ captures a ward at night and the forms that can’t quite hold what’s happening.
By James Hannan via Litro Magazine

30/11/2025

Global hustle meets intimate cost: A Bond Girl https://www.litromagazine.com/editors-pick/a-bond-girl/ follows a Korean entrepreneur moving through the grey economy -magnets, money, appetite, agency.
By Amy E. M. Yang

02/11/2025

A winter-light story about what we say, what we don’t, and how love bends around both.
Read “The Trees” at Litro. https://bit.ly/47AiJdn

via Litro Magazine

A relationship bends under the weight of what can’t be said. A quiet, resonant winter-light story.

02/11/2025

A reporter climbs into the Black Forest to meet Dopey’s mother. The answers are not what you expect. Read the new story on Litro Magazine https://bit.ly/4nDcono

An interviewer hikes into the Black Forest to meet Dopey’s mother. Which witch? Which story? The answers arrive in deadpan whispers—and an axe that glints at dusk.

02/11/2025

Rural satire with heart: a community out-maneuvers a centralising agenda using road signs, drones, and an ingenious flood. Read “The Minister for Rural Affairs.”
By Linden Hibbert https://bit.ly/3Llk1kY

A village turns policy into a caper: diversion signs, drones, and a flood engineered with cheese and ferrets.

02/11/2025

New motherhood meets old memory. In “Who’s Jorge?” a baby speaks of a past life and the night thickens with possibility.
Read the new story at Litro Magazine now by Jane Dabate. https://bit.ly/48UkLY4
via Litro Magazine

A mother hears her newborn speak of a past life named Jorge. Wonder starts to split into dread as a storm rolls in.

19/10/2025

Litro Magazine feature: Feral Feral by Ian Clark
A night, a fight, a choice that can’t be undone.
Read the full story → https://www.litromagazine.com/editors-pick/feral/

Set in 1990s Plymouth’s underbelly, Feral follows Shaun, a hesitant participant in a brutal night that turns fatal. Through his fractured perspective, we witness a spiral of violence, complicity, and moral rot. The story is soaked in atmosphere rain, sodium light, adrenaline, and guilt culminating...

19/10/2025

A dinner meant to be romantic turns into a reckoning.
Fine Dining (Aubade) unravels a marriage with surgical calm.
Now on Litro → http://bit.ly/47hSA2S
By M.L Ellison

An elite restaurant becomes the stage for a quiet marital disintegration. With scalpel wit and social satire, the narrator dissects performance, consumption, and self-annihilation.