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War Destroys A Man From the Inside Out
Shrapnel bores out of Daddy when he chops too much wood. They float to a place near his spine and…
Libertas
Just as the Greeks hypothesised, my uterus traversed my whole body, and yet in an absence of hysteria, she squeezed…
We Love in Small Moments: a Collection on Love Review
We Love in Small Moments: a Collection on Love is the debut chapbook by Melissa Boles published by Emerge Literary…
Preface: The Spaces Boundaries Open Up
I’ve always thought life is more about what is unsaid than what is said. We live in odd gaps of…
Origin Story
There was a man—there is always a man. There was the crush of gray wave. The cold bite of late…
Flash Perspectives with Veronica Montes
Fractured: What excites you about writing flash fiction/ Are there any limitations to the form? Montes: For me, flash is…
Lessons in Negative Space
1. It’s always night when they wheel us girls in, gowned on gurneys. Underground. They pull their masks up and…
the 2021 fractured lit ghost, fable, and fractured fairy tale prize shortlist
We’re proud to announce the 23 titles of our shortlist! The submissions we received were so thrilling, inventive, and affecting…
Rabbit
Years ago, his mother brought home a rabbit. “Make it fat, will you?” she asked him. The boy held the…
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