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Your Lover, The Clown

By Iona Rule

You meet him at your niece’s birthday party, where the kids run feral, coked-up on pink juice and icing. While…

Remember Your Goals

By Michele Zimmerman

Write down your goals for tomorrow. Write down your goals on a small pocket-sized notepad so that you can take…

2022 The Fractured Lit Micro Fiction Prize Longlist

By Fractured Lit

Spatchcock

By Sarah Rosenthal

The whole bird lay naked on the cutting board. Iris had received the wooden board as a wedding present. It…

Dust

By Terri Pease

There was a lot of dust on them mens. Me, keepin’ off the wooden sidewalk while keeping an eye, a…

Coefficient

By Phillip Sterling

The foam pillow, one of several retrieved from his parent’s house after the sale, smelled of Bengay. Meant for the…

July 1964

By Cara Olexa

In a blur, a blind of grass, the horse. Dunes. At your right, ocean collapsing on the edge of Virginia.…

Luna

By Dawn Miller

From her window seat on the train, Ruth watches the cluster of teenage boys on the platform. They posture in…

The Extractions

By Kim Parko

Agnes rocked us in her boat. Cradled between waves, we were sleepy. She sang a song from her deepest throat:…

Trauma Becomes You

By Karen McKinnon

It is my job to gag her. Mike and some of the others have her pinned to the ground. The…

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