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Two Identical Strangers
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
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)
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
waiting to cross. My heart tick, ticking like a stupid clock. Eddie and his dark hair forest, his blue eye…
Epidemic
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
What are your favorite things to write about? Those topics or items you can’t stop thinking about! “Favorite” implies that…
The Tornado
It was a bright, gray day with no breeze, and she had just finished digging a grave. She’d woken that…
the 2020 fractured lit flash fiction prize longlist
We’re proud to announce the 56 titles of our longlist! The submissions we received were fresh, fierce, and so engaging…
BASKETBALL: footnote¹
In the footnote: He read Basketball diaries, but he was Latino and he did not wear a shirt titled, Latinidad,…
Salve
Bette was stirring her coffee when she saw the postcard, tucked between a large print arthritis monthly and debt consolidation…
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