We will admit that the stories from this challenge lit up our brains in all the right ways! So much creativity and thrilling stories in our queue, but we found a longlist of 21 stories! And we're working on that...
Fractured Lit
Fractured Lit Ghost, Fable, and Fairy Tales Prize Judged by Dan Chaon Longlist
Congrats to all of our long-listed writers! Your story stood out to our readers and editors, and we're excited to continue reading to find the perfect shortlist to send to Judge Dan Chaon! Longlist: Temptation a white...
Ghost, Fable, and Fairy Tales Prize Judged by Dan Chaon Longlist
Congrats to all of our long-listed writers! Your story stood out to our readers and editors, and we're excited to continue reading to find the perfect shortlist to send to Judge Dan Chaon! Longlist: Temptation a white...
Anthology 5 Winners and Shortlist
Judge Tara Isabel Zambrano has done the difficult task of choosing the twenty winners for this year's anthology! We're so excited to publish these twenty stories on our website and then in print! We also want to...
Anthology 5 Shortlist
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...
Baby Goat on the Roof
“You’re dead to me,” Cas says when I dart back inside the house and catch her dancing through the living room in her red string bikini. Cinnamon scents the room as she waitresses a plate of oatmeal cookies—hot, no...
Anthology 5 Longlist
If these titles are any indication, then you can see how hard it has been getting down to a longlist of 67 flash and micofictions! We can't wait to get our shortlist of 40 to judge, Tara Isabel Zambrano! We're...
2025 fractured lit flash fiction open: CLOSED
We want your most innovative and resonant flash and microfictions. We’re thrilled to partner with Guest Judge Gwen E. Kirby, who will choose one grand-prize winner and fifteen finalists from a shortlist of forty stories curated by our editors.
You are pulling your hair again
and I don’t say anything as you drop each strand on the ground and I wonder are you okay do you need help is that good for you as I see patches spread across your head and I know that it’s not good for you, but it must...
I Regret to Inform You I Made These Plans When I Gave a Shit and Things Have Changed
Willow doesn’t even get the satisfaction of saying Brandon broke up with her. They were never a couple, not officially, their relationship undefined after six months of perfunctory orgasm-less sex (for her at least)....
2024 Micro Prize Winners and Shortlist
We're excited to announce the three winners chosen by Judge Deb Olin Unferth! 1. Our Father by Theresa Sylvester “This is an astonishing story, revealing so much about the father in a few words, the complexity of his...
Fiction Writing
Truth or dare: Who did you lose your virginity to? That sorta-kinda-boyfriend I had the summer before college. We both worked at Six Flags. He: the Texas Cyclone. Me: cotton candy. The days: sweaty, sticky. The nights:...