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Millennial Pink Bread

By Meagan Cass

As if covered in invisible glaze, her bread bakes pink. She buys new flour, new yeast, sends it into the…

High Summer

By Clio Velentza

Their old landmarks are charred, the ashen sludge slips into her sandals. Find me at our pit, he’d said. Where…

Three Sprigs

By Kim Magowan

1. When planning your garden, be aware that certain herbs are highly invasive, and may overwhelm a garden, choking other…

Two Identical Strangers

By Rosetta Young

These days, when I pull up the old photographs, most people still attribute the resemblance between Lydia Lissing and me…

the 2020 fractured lit flash fiction prize shortlist

By Fractured Lit

We’re proud to announce the 22 titles of our shortlist! The submissions we received were fresh, fierce, and so engaging…

It Came From the Bottom of the Lake (1954)

By Meghan Phillips

The Stuntman Cuts through the water like shears through velvet. Like an arrow through the apple on a little boy’s…

Me and Eddie on the Boulevard

By Francine Witte

waiting to cross.  My heart tick, ticking like a stupid clock.  Eddie and his dark hair forest, his blue eye…

Epidemic

By Sarah Freligh

Because Davie Gray is protected by the blood of Jesus and his scripture-spouting pastor daddy, he stays in the classroom…

A Flash Perspective: Interview with Kim Magowan

By Fractured Lit
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What are your favorite things to write about? Those topics or items you can’t stop thinking about! “Favorite” implies that…

The Tornado

By Rebekah Bergman

It was a bright, gray day with no breeze, and she had just finished digging a grave. She’d woken that…

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