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Beach Tree
I know something is wrong when the spot in the corner of my right eye won’t go away. I was…
Fractured Lit Anthology Volume 4 Shortlist
We want to celebrate the 39 stories on our Anthology Four shortlist! We loved reading these stories, and we can’t…
Sideways
“Sit sideways,” the photographer says, “or you won’t fit.” Obediently, they turn, bare flesh sliding smoothly against the porcelain, and…
Canarsie Zuhitsu
Last stop on the LL line. Subway platform outdoors, a track on each side. A green-lit bulb above each track.…
Every Thought and Prayer
Every thought and prayer was answered. Everything reversed. The news crews packed their vans with cameras and microphones, and the…
The Flies
As she kills the flies, Gloria asks for mercy, then sprays an insecticide that sticks to the walls for weeks.…
Splinter
We’re not allowed to leave the yard, even when the other kids are playing in the wooded triangle everyone calls…
The Story You’ll Never Tell
That story you’ll never tell is the house on the street in every Seventies horror movie you devoured in the…
Vermilion Cliffs
Colors baked into a layer cake of rock. A hot and dry May in Arizona. We cannot drink enough water.…
People Present on Carnaby Street on a Saturday Afternoon in Early May
Four murderers, one of them with horn-rimmed glasses. A steady flow of pushchair mothers who divert to left or right…
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