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Anthology 5 Shortlist

May 24, 2025/Fractured Lit

We finally curated a shortlist of 41 stories, and they’ve been sent to judge, Tara Isabel Zambrano! It’s out of our hands, and we can’t wait to see which stories Tara chooses to include in the final 20 for the anthology!

  1. Wife 2.0
  2. Veterans
  3. No Soap
  4. After the Rocket
  5. Abraham Ritter: March 7, 1949—
  6. Isopentyl acetate
  7. Jigsaw
  8. Christina
  9. Lightyears Away
  10. One Day in December, My Trapezius Decided to Write a Short Epic Poem
  11. Nest
  12. Feeling Cakes
  13. Blossoming
  14. Before The Everything After
  15. Dog Years
  16. Sister Sister
  17. Scintilla River
  18. Ripe
  19. Good Dog
  20. Another Friday
  21. Weed
  22. Rock Dove
  23. Burn
  24. New You Wig Emporium
  25. Last Things
  26. Close and Far Away
  27. Blackberry Pie
  28. Sick Day
  29. Some of Us Notice the Berries
  30. Miss Tafia, Her Snakes and Her People
  31. The Verizon Guy
  32. Kintsugi
  33. Big Top
  34. The Bride Is Eating Cake and the DJ Is Playing Werewolves of London
  35. Birds
  36. Richter Scale for Heartbreak
  37. Empty Bottle
  38. Percussion of Empty Rooms
  39. Didn’t We Realize We Were Drowning?
  40. Hands
  41. By the Sea, By the Sea, By the Beautiful Sea

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