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Beach Tree

By Amy DeBellis

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

By Fractured Lit

We want to celebrate the 39 stories on our Anthology Four shortlist! We loved reading these stories, and we can’t…

Sideways

By Cassandra Parkin

“Sit sideways,” the photographer says, “or you won’t fit.” Obediently, they turn, bare flesh sliding smoothly against the porcelain, and…

Canarsie Zuhitsu

By Geri Modell

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

By Stephen Haines

Every thought and prayer was answered. Everything reversed. The news crews packed their vans with cameras and microphones, and the…

The Flies

By Rachele Salvini

As she kills the flies, Gloria asks for mercy, then sprays an insecticide that sticks to the walls for weeks.…

Splinter

By Didi Wood

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

By Kathryn Aldridge-Morris

That story you’ll never tell is the house on the street in every Seventies horror movie you devoured in the…

Vermilion Cliffs

By Allison Field Bell

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

By Matt Kendrick

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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