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The Newborn

By Kenny Tanemura

The swaddled newborn startles awake at a quarter to midnight. I plug his mouth with a powder blue pacifier bearing…

The Made Boy

By Chris Haven

This little boy has forgotten how he was made. He is old enough to know he can’t ask his teddy…

romantic connecticut

By Dani Blackman

there is no romantic connecticut the text says, but I don’t take this as rejection. I don’t blame autocorrect. I…

Tiny Little Goat

By Jasmine Sawers

After you left, a goat took up residence in the left ventricle of my heart. I didn’t know about my…

2022 The Fractured Lit Micro Fiction Prize Shortlist

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Boy

By Tochukwu Okafor

Boy, on the night your mother brought you into this noisy, miserable world, at exactly 11:18 pm, on a rainy…

A Middle Finger Flipped on a School Bus

By Davon Loeb

On the school bus you should have seen them, monkeying around about wheels, bottles of non-alcoholic beers, Rock-Paper-Scissor, two kids…

Cheerleader

By John Haggerty

Alison was a cheerleader, and the second-prettiest girl in our class. These qualities seemed extremely important to us at the…

TRYST

By Despy Boutris

The secret to sin is to do it in secret. We learned secrecy young—two girls taught to swallow our hunger—so…

No Matter How Pretty They Look

By Kristina Saccone

It was our first once-a-month grandmother-granddaughter date at the JCC. I hopped on the treadmill while you did Jazzercise, all…

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