the 2020 fractured lit flash fiction prize longlist

We’re proud to announce the 56 titles of our longlist! The submissions we received were fresh, fierce, and so engaging that we’ve had a hard time narrowing down the list! From this list, 25 stories will make it to the shortlist for judge Megan Giddings to choose her final 3 winners! Please don’t identify your story title as the shortlist will be delivered to Megan anonymously!

When It Gets Cold in the South, The Youngest Baby Dies

Instructions for Avoiding INS, 1996

You Married

Departures

Rada’s Story

Exigua

Jump Cut

Eyes Like Cherry Tomatoes

Wolfie

The Nineteen-Point Day

Bird and Balloon Go Racing

Carlos Inside Out

Adam and Eve

Aeroplane man

Sweet-tooth

Crocodile

Where is Stephanie East?

Too Contrived

Bed 15A, Qualia

Here Is How 

Southwest Loop 820

Skeleton Crew

Morning

There is No Ocean in the Bucket

Sole

Crawl to Me 

Funeral Party

Stripping Off the Glitz

Revenge of the Cloud Makers

Introduction to Improv Tragedy

Antiparticle Delivery Driver

Stories

Summer Hand

Mrs Chandler Wants to Know

The Tick

The Future History of the Arctic 

A List of Things I Have Used the Knife for Thus Far

Surely, You Aren’t Like Them

Consider the Shape of Your Fist

Disappearing

There, I Said It

Benny

Counting Trees With Mr. Gillson

Ellis

The Unicorns

Peach Fuzz

Tagged

Teeth

SixFeet

Spaghetti Junction

The Ceremony

Remember Tomorrow in Seasons

Beers and Blueberry Cosmos

You Will Do This

We Are Still

Pelee Island