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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…

Diamonds for My Daughters

By Kathryne McCann

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

By Laur A. Freymiller

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

By Steven Sherrill

My brother is the smallest man in the world. I’m not even kidding. Most of the time, he lives in…

Hair, Teeth

By Josiah Nelson

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

By Fractured Lit
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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

By Rosaleen Lynch

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

By Fractured Lit

We Sleep Within the Vast Sadness of the Mountain Salty Feet Dark Crescent How Boys Get Their Wings Lair Fish…

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