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For a Short Time Only

By Holly Burns

The summer I babysat the Brady twins, their parents were on the brink of divorce. My parents were on the…

Snagging Blanket

By Abigail F. Taylor

Sundance Lee draped his old snagging blanket around his shoulders. It hadn’t snagged anyone for many years. His legs were…

Fullness

By Payne Ratner

First it was the little porcelain dogs with green glass eyes. Each one in various uniforms. A policeman bulldog, a…

Four

By E.R. Ramzipoor

And because the house was filled with comfortable things, you wondered. As your wife slept under the perfect thread count,…

Fractured Lit Elsewhere Prize Winners & Shortlisted Writers

By Fractured Lit

And the winners are… Thank you to all of our writers on the shortlist! We know so many of these…

Reasons to Be Cheerful

By G. Ochsner

One morning, as I stood at the bus stop waiting for the 7:05, my neighbor, Horowitz, drove over my left…

PIEL MUERTA / DEAD SKIN

By Gabriella Navas

She begins each morning by peeling the dead skin off her lips. Sometimes, she feels like she is shucking corn…

Fractured Lit Anthology Volume 4 Longlist

By Fractured Lit

We want to celebrate the 52 stories on our Anthology Four longlist! An eclectic group of fantastic flash fiction that…

The Girl Made of Dirt

By Dawn Miller

The other girls laugh when she struggles to stand up in the ditch, her mouth edged with dirt. She braces…

My Mother, the Water Monster

By Aeriel Merillat

I drove to the county hospital to pick up my mother. She was not as I suspected. They handed her…

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