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It’s Still There

By Robert Garner McBrearty

Maybe I was twenty-one or so, somewhere around there, young anyway, and I don’t remember much about where this all…

Fractured Lit Reprint Prize Winners and Shortlisted stories

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1st Place: Tiny Little Goat by Jasmine Sawers Admittedly, I am a sucker for a funny/sad story that succeeds. It’s…

Fusion

By Diane Kraynak

The love story starts here. I am dreaming of Orlando Bloom when I’m awakened by an icy poke into my…

Cold Comfort

By Rachel O'Cleary

This is the third year that she has haunted me. She is pale and slightly shimmery, as if brushed with…

Worms in the Dirt

By Megan Bounds

No time left in Jackie’s thumbs. They died before the rest of her, dangled precious on jagged hipbones, in and…

Fractured Lit Reprint Prize Shortlisted Titles

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Attaboy Louis Mother’s Keeper Before What Will We Do With All This Grief The Good Hours Shore No Rhyme Nor…

Fish Folk

By Breana Harris

The other moms at the beach are skinny and sharp, all oiled angles and monochromatic bikinis. Mira and I don’t…

When Saturn and Jupiter Meet in the Middle

By Ellen Weeren

Children play on street corners until the lights grow dim and the stars are visible like pinpricks on a bulletin…

Commercial Break

By Benjamin Niespodziany

Once a week a truck driver drove down our street. Stuck to the sides of the semi were two television…

Fractured Lit Reprint Prize Longlisted Titles

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Bread Attaboy Louis Mother’s Keeper Before Viva Peaches Johnny and Janie Cross Country What Will We Do With All This…

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