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Diamonds for My Daughters
Sometimes you think about her hands. Sometimes, before the sun hits the sky, you sit at the kitchen table, crimping…
The Bottom of a Well is Also a Home
The creature who lives in the well makes noises at night. Small noises as if it doesn’t want to disturb…
My Brother, Named and Unnamed
My brother is the smallest man in the world. I’m not even kidding. Most of the time, he lives in…
Hair, Teeth
They came to town, one riding a lawnmower, the other carrying a leaf blower, their hair shorn tight and crisp…
Fast Flash Challenge Contest Winners & Shortlisted writers
1st: Place: Party in the O.R. by Lannie Stabile Runner-Up: Through the Window by Susan Wigmore Runner-Up: Be Prepared by…
The Pigeon-Pea Princess of Sanganakallu
The pigeon-pea, that lies under seventeen cardboard mattresses, grew in the stone age, amongst wild animals, and traveled across time…
2022 Fractured Lit Ghost, Fable, and Fairy Tales Prize Shortlisted Titles
We Sleep Within the Vast Sadness of the Mountain Salty Feet Dark Crescent How Boys Get Their Wings Lair Fish…
A THOUSAND MILES AWAY
We were always driving and once in the night in the dark after hours and hours, days even of only…
Your Mother Imagines You Dead
She imagines you dead in the bathtub. The split second you slide under. The gasp. The sputter. She catches you,…
2022 Fractured Lit Ghost, Fable, and Fairy Tales Prize Longlisted Titles
Missing Cracked They Are the Wild Ones A Ghost Story How to Stitch the Emperor’s New Clothes We Sleep Within…
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