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When Saturn and Jupiter Meet in the Middle
Children play on street corners until the lights grow dim and the stars are visible like pinpricks on a bulletin…
Commercial Break
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
Bread Attaboy Louis Mother’s Keeper Before Viva Peaches Johnny and Janie Cross Country What Will We Do With All This…
Where Have All the Children Gone
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.
Today is my double mastectomy. Today is also my birthday. As he numbs me, the anesthesiologist wears a pink pointed…
Be Prepared
A baby grand piano appeared after Billie moved in with her son. Fourth-rate elegance. Plywood garbage. The stroke took away…
THROUGH THE WINDOW
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
1st Place: It’s Still There by Robert McBrearty This is a superb metafiction; a very short story about very short…
Orange: Micro Series
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
But here I am anyway, in the CVS on Perkins and Sixteenth, allowing her to turn me criminal. Like this.…
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