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Where Have All the Children Gone

By Avitus B. Carle

After the war, a corkboard appears in the center of the village. No one knows how it got there. Only…

Party in the O.R.

By Lannie Stabile

Today is my double mastectomy. Today is also my birthday. As he numbs me, the anesthesiologist wears a pink pointed…

Be Prepared

By JR Walsh

A baby grand piano appeared after Billie moved in with her son. Fourth-rate elegance. Plywood garbage. The stroke took away…

THROUGH THE WINDOW

By Susan Wigmore

Demons cavort in the darkness of trees. Slender, knuckle-cracking things, whispering a wasp language. You stop your ears with moss,…

Ghost, Fable, and Fairy Tales Prize Winners and Shortlisted Writers

By Fractured Lit

1st Place: It’s Still There by Robert McBrearty This is a superb metafiction; a very short story about very short…

Orange: Micro Series

By Jared Povanda

Womb Cat wants to paint her house fluorescent orange. Call it Crisis. Call it citrus combating scurvy. Cat doesn’t go…

My Mother Calls Her a Head-Case Convict

By Kaya Dierks

But here I am anyway, in the CVS on Perkins and Sixteenth, allowing her to turn me criminal. Like this.…

Breaking Points: An interview with Chelsea Stickle

By Fractured Lit
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It sounds like you’re always writing! How did you decide what stories to put in this chapbook? Were there any…

Hung the Sun

By Avra Margariti

Sometimes I need it to be dark. That’s what I need. For it to be dark. I lean out my…

AU: the night your husband proposed

By Vic Nogay

You’re standing with toes far back from the edge, not prepared for a swim that night in Otsego when he…

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