Fractured Lit Flash Fiction OPEN Judged by Maurice Carlos Ruffin Longlist

We’re excited to honor these stories by being on our longlist for this contest! We’ll have a shortlist to send to Judge Maurice Carlos Ruffin very soon!

1. Memento Morrie
2. Dead Things I Gave Birth To
3. A Short Love Story
4. Humoresque
5. The Anti-Anti Natalists
6. Envelopes
7. Call Me Daddy
8. My brother dead in the Heaven Department
9. Spare Change
10. Snow
11. Bird’s Eye
12. Trapped
13. No Promises
14. Thursday
15. In the Path of Totality
16. Reel
17. The Body is a Fragile Thing
18. White Trash
19. Blonde Dragon
20. The Hunt
21. Maybe It Comes Like This
22. Aftermath
23. The Indigo Dyer
24. And this is all of it
25. One Minute Thirty-Five Seconds
26. The Uranium Bird
27. Brittle Stars
28. The Touch Forecast
29. I Called Her Name
30. Good Neighbors
31. Tuskegee Experiment On Negro Eggmen
32. Death in Samarra
33. Heartbeat
34. Sugar Highs & Lows
35. Sixty, Fifty-Nine, Fifty-Eight
36. Pulse
37. A Layman’s Guide to Key Diversity in Physics
38. Rage smells like coffee
39. Gizzard
40. Oh, Buttercup
41. Blood-Related
42. Lines Left
43. Bramble
44. My Woman
45. Adrift