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Mary the Obscure
The Marys—mothers, daughters, whores, saints, queens and killers—meet every Thursday afternoon in Riverside Park during the spring and summer months.…
The Rookery
The rookery is disguised as a shed. I keep a lawnmower and a pair of hedge trimmers for the sake…
Fig
For breakfast, Zip and I will eat a rancid jar of olives, a brittle feather from the windowsill, and a…
Fractured Lit 2021 Micro Contest Winners and Shortlist
Huge thank you to judge Matthew Salesses for reading and choosing the winners. This was definitely one of our most…
Everything Will Be Okay in the End
The ghosts have come looking for my maid, but the maid is not here. The maid is out back in…
Self-Portrait as Everything You’re Not
Blonde girls at school seek to become blonder. Blonde girls arrive with new highlights, preening at the way their faces…
Day Trader
You’re good at selling words. Every morning you go to the market with the other girls and offer up a…
Wedding in Acapulco, 1983
Notice how they stand in the background of an old family photograph. How they all wear white. How they cloak…
2021 Best Small Fictions Nominations
Endangered Species by Caroljean Gavin Things Never Stay Warm by María Alejandra Barrios A Too Small Room by Yume Kitasei…
Pose
His boots lay down a path through the Timothy and Queen Anne’s lace. This tall, tall boy, with his long…
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