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War Destroys A Man From the Inside Out

By Edie Meade

Shrapnel bores out of Daddy when he chops too much wood. They float to a place near his spine and…

Libertas

By Bayveen O'Connell

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

By Laura Besley
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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

By Grant Faulkner

I’ve always thought life is more about what is unsaid than what is said. We live in odd gaps of…

Origin Story

By Kyra Kondis

There was a man—there is always a man. There was the crush of gray wave. The cold bite of late…

Protected: Getting Crafty with K-Ming Chang

By K-Ming Chang
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Flash Perspectives with Veronica Montes

By Veronica Montes
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Fractured: What excites you about writing flash fiction/ Are there any limitations to the form? Montes: For me, flash is…

Lessons in Negative Space

By Sara Hills

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

By Fractured Lit
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We’re proud to announce the 23 titles of our shortlist! The submissions we received were so thrilling, inventive, and affecting…

Rabbit

By Yunya Yang

Years ago, his mother brought home a rabbit. “Make it fat, will you?” she asked him. The boy held the…

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