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The Blob Takes Manhattan

By Chelsea Stickle

Now that the Arctic isn’t cold anymore, The Blob is awake and tearing through malls like a post-breakup trust fund…

Seed Money

By Sara Hills

For only seventy-seven dollars, the TV preacher promises God will grant me a miracle. He clasps his hands in prayer,…

It’s Not A Lark: An Interview with Michael Czyzniejewski

By Lori D’Angelo
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Michael Czyzniejewski, who is the interviews editor at the flash fiction magazine Smokelong Quarterly, has written four collections of short…

Hunger

By Gillian OShaughnessy

I bury my dead in this garden. Over there, under the cabbage roses. They haunt me through the day. At…

2024 Fractured Lit Ghost, Fable, and Fairy Tales Prize Longlist

By Fractured Lit

We asked for new ways to tell these kinds of stories, and these 52 writers did not disappoint! We’re working…

Gelato

By Richie Zaborowske

For two years now, Leonard’s wife hasn’t wanted to have sex with him. He figures it might have to do…

You Are What You Eat

By Barbara Diggs

so I know you are eggs. Sunny side up, salmonella-scrambled, salsa-slathered, over-hard yellow-white discs fried in bacon grease until the…

Candles

By Kelly Ann Jacobson

The third store we visit has been raided. The shelves are like rows of gapped teeth—missing flashlights, missing batteries, missing…

Softening

By Ruth Joffre

I used to tell people that my first kiss was on a December night, under a pine tree, when a…

Girl Woman | Woodsman Wolf

By Joshua Jones Lofflin

Here is what you’ll bring to grandmother’s house:

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