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Christina

By Madison Cyr
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I named her Christina. She began as they all did—a greasy secretion that shimmered and then solidified into a milky coat of wax. It reminded me of the hospital where we were only allowed to write with crayons because you couldn’t puncture someone’s larynx with a crayon. I spent my time there in the TV…

Fractured Lit Gods & Monsters Challenge Shortlist

By Fractured Lit

We made some hard choices to create this shortlist for the Gods and Monsters Challenge! Congratulations to these writers! We’ll choose a winner by next week! Shortlist:

Fractured Lit Ghost, Fable, and Fairy Tales Prize Judged by Dan Chaon Shortlist

By Fractured Lit

Check out the titles of these 20 stories! Congrats to all of our short-listed writers! Your story stood out to our readers and editors, and we’re excited to send it to Judge Dan Chaon! Shortlist:

Jigsaw

By Anna Cabreros
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My sister Jane and I make the ideal jigsaw puzzle partnership. She’s more organized than me, the one who categorizes and compartmentalizes, but I have all the patience. Most recently, we tried a 1,000-piece train travel scene. She dutifully separated the pieces into little groups – landscape, tray of food, luggage, maps. And then there…

Wife 2.0

By Nancy Alvarado

“Do you want a bite, Linda?” you call out cheerfully from the living room. You’re settled into your recliner, hunched gleefully over a cinnamon roll. I pause, grip the broom hovering over a pile of debris in the middle of our tiny kitchen floor. I wanted to playfully scold you for the decadence of the…

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