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Fractured Lit Ghost, Fable, and Fairy Tales Prize Judged by Dan Chaon Longlist

By Fractured Lit

Congrats to all of our long-listed writers! Your story stood out to our readers and editors, and we’re excited to…

housekeeping

By Wenyi Xue

Call your mother at 3 am, and when she asks why you are awake so late, tell her you recently…

Anthology 5 Winners and Shortlist

By Fractured Lit

Judge Tara Isabel Zambrano has done the difficult task of choosing the twenty winners for this year’s anthology! We’re so…

What To Do If Someone Tries To Tell You Bad News

By Kim Magowan

Perhaps you will find yourself in this situation, returning late at night to a university campus, deserted for the summer.…

Coyote, Bones, Howl

By Sabrina Hicks

CoyoteThe house slept while I stayed up stretching, trying to fit my body into this world, knowingsomething ancient lives inside…

A Perfect Pair

By Julia Strayer

My husband has this idea to marry a laundromat and a bowling alley. “A perfect pair,” he says. “Like us.”…

Mother, False

By Tara Isabel Zambrano

The girl grows overnight after her mother dies–two extra hands emerge from her back, like the Hindu goddess Durga. Her…

The Clay of It

By Anais Godard

When he walked into her studio, Elodie was sculpting her seventh ceramic penis of the week. This one had antlers.…

Cotton Mouth

By Janna Miller

I A cottonmouth swallows me when I am seven. It waits for me just outside my front door, stretched out…

Boys in Boxes

By James Montgomery

The men are dying. We’re the boys who see them. In tabloids, on news bulletins. Faces pocked with purple lesions,…

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