Litro Magazine

17/08/2025

This week's is Ricky Olson 's haunting
The Good Guys: A devastating father-son tale of morality, secrecy, and survival in the woods, Olson’s fiction debut in Litro expands his creative voice beyond the stage, , where he performs as guitarist for Motionless In White

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A powerful Litro USA story: Ricky Olson’s ‘The Good Guys’ explores morality, fatherhood, and guilt after a hunting trip ends in tragedy.

03/08/2025

“I let him tie me up because that’s what he needed.”

In Bank Robber by Alberto Rodriguez, a woman tests the limits of control and desire in a red-lit room of secrets.

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A poetic noir about desire, danger, and the rituals of power. In “Bank Robber,” a mysterious woman finds herself caught in the smoke and mirrors of intimacy and betrayal. A haunting short story about control, performance, and truth — featured this week in Litro USA.

03/08/2025

“I was crying in the lingerie department. No one noticed.”

In this quietly powerful memoir, grief unfolds under fluorescent lights in a dressing room.

Read Crying in the Lingerie Department — by Sarah Casey http://bit.ly/453Cnyw

A quietly devastating memoir of grief and womanhood, set in a department store fitting room. Raw, intimate, and unmistakably human.

03/08/2025

“Aphrodite” by Fleur Lilliott is not your typical myth retelling.

Told from the goddess’s point of view, this story reclaims the narrative — turning beauty, envy, war, and memory into a modern meditation on power and desire.

For readers of Madeline Miller, Margaret Atwood, and lovers of myth with bite.

Read now at LitroUSA:

A contemporary literary retelling of the Greek goddess Aphrodite, reframed as a powerful female narrator reckoning with the aftermath of the Trojan War and the weaponization of beauty.Themes: Beauty and power, feminist reimaginings, divine femininity, mythology and modernityIdeal for: Readers of Mad...

03/08/2025

“The Christian Christmas spirit long gone. I woke to a dream of fight.”

In I Always Know When To Go, Marie James writes from Mevagissey, Cornwall — where an evening of community carol singing turns quietly, chillingly wrong.

I Always Know When To Go is a beautifully written piece about presence, instinct, and how the past lives in the body.

Read now at http://bit.ly/4oB1DE3

via Litro Magazine

A lone voice, a harbour lit for Christmas, and a moment that quietly turns.

18/07/2025

Friday Flash // from The Knock

“It was just after half past seven when they knocked. Not a battering. Not the exaggerated hammering of drama. Just a knock — measured, certain — a sound that seemed to pause the morning.”

She stood at the top of the stairs. He opened the door. Eight officers entered.

No one smiled. No one raised their voice.

And just like that, the life she thought she knew shifted.

Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/40tdp8Z
— a devastating, true account of accusation, silence, and survival

18/07/2025

In a small town where loss wears no uniform, the dead speak loudest through what’s left unsaid.

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04/07/2025

“Now it’s my turn.”

For two decades, Litro has championed untold stories — voices from the margins, stories rooted in migration, memory, and reinvention.

Today, our Publisher shares one of his own.

In the first extract from his forthcoming memoir, Eric reflects on his journey from Ghana to South London, from bootleg tapes in the Bronx to building a life in publishing — and legacy as a father.

This isn’t a rebuttal. It’s a reclamation.

Read the full story at litromagazine.com

04/07/2025

Our Publisher, Eric Kwaku Akoto, has shared the first extract from his forthcoming memoir — a story that spans continents and generations, from Ghana to South London, the Bronx to Battersea.

It’s a deeply personal reflection on memory, manhood, music, migration — and the journey of finding a voice strong enough to build something lasting.

We’re proud to share this story with our readers.

For over 20 years, I’ve asked you — our readers, our writers, our community — to open yourselves up.To send in your stories.To speak the unspeakable.To risk being fragile on the page. You’ve done that. Week after week, year after year.Now, it’s my turn. This is an extract from a memoir I.....

08/06/2025

"The window had become my frame..."

This week on , Litro presents A Different Corner by Craig Bartholomew Strydom — a moody, hypnotic short story about voyeurism, missed moments, and emotional fallout.

Read here: https://bit.ly/43AqjEa

Rear Window meets emotional freefall in this subtle, voyeuristic portrait of love, timing, and what we see — or think we see — from across the street.

30/05/2025

This week’s second selection:
In “This Ant Cannot Be Rescued” by Linda Temienor-Vincent, a moment in a bathroom becomes an existential study of strength, envy, and grace.
Read it here: https://bit.ly/4kkTXmI

A meditation on perception and perseverance. A woman, confronted with a fallen ant, observes its relentless effort—and sees herself drawing parallels between form, willpower, and womanhood.

30/05/2025

A letter. A joke. A stand-up set. A stalking that never ends.
Darkly hilarious and quietly horrifying, this week’s Litro Flash is “HOT SINGLES IN YOUR AREA.”
https://bit.ly/44VKBJh By Gabrielle Fullam

HOT SINGLES IN YOUR AREA flips the traditional stalker narrative into a biting satire of fear, desensitization, and performance. As our unnamed narrator turns dread into dinner-party anecdotes—and eventually stand-up comedy—this chilling flash fiction piece plays with the thin veil between dange...