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Giving Up

By Cathy Cade

My sister turns her key in the lock and pushes. The door moves a handbreadth. Mum croaks from the living…

Dirty Shirley

By Shannon Bowring

They say she’ll do anything for a tenner. She’s fourteen. She lives in the trailer park across from the river.…

Attaboy Louis

By Shastri Akella

Louis liked the name: Prospect Cemetery. As if its prescient eighteenth-century builders had known that one day college boys would…

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

By Fractured Lit

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

By Fractured Lit

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…

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