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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

By Fractured Lit

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

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.…

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