Fractured Lit Elsewhere Prize Longlist

Once again, we had trouble deciding which stories should make the longlist, so here are 51 stories in contention! We’ll be back shortly with the shortlist!

1. Siempres & Wedding Cake
2. The right to bear arms
3. Mud Angels
4. Bethany
5. Keratin High
6. Peasant Legs
7. The Eulogy You Write for Your Mother When She’s Given You Every Last Piece of Herself (And Made You a Cannibal)
8. Under a Wild Full Moon
9. Love Love
10. The Joker & Me
11. Winter Took It
12. Salsa
13. Camping with Jeff
14. Yarn Craft
15. The Bravery of Fashionable Folks
16. BEGGING BOWLS
17. In the Next Life, Spring Comes Back
18. Kleptomania
19. Gem City
20. Sacrifice
21. Every Thought and Prayer
22. Lift Boy
23. Cave Swimming
24. The Year of the Grass People
25. Greek
26. Jingling Journies
27. Death on a Hot Day
28. Arborist Anthem
29. OUR END IS OUR BEGINNING
30. The Basalt Queen and Blood-stained Chess-cloth
31. Nettles
32. The Art Of The Fright
33. Raina
34. Peripheral Neuropathy
35. A Cautionary Tale
36. Canarsie Zuhitsu
37. The Loudouts
38. I Fell to Earth and Landed in Alaska
39. El Pobrecito on Católico Street
40. Sideways
41. Last Contact
42. All Saints
43. Wargames: the Squealing Pig
44. Ground Beneath the Bars
45. A Life Outside
46. The Warmth of Embers
47. Cow-Pasture Bisexual Anthem
48. The Midnight Revolt at Bertrand’s Year-Round Christmas Store
49. The Trouble with Hell
50. Cusp
51. Death and Dying