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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…

the 2020 fractured lit flash fiction prize longlist

By Fractured Lit

We’re proud to announce the 56 titles of our longlist! The submissions we received were fresh, fierce, and so engaging…

BASKETBALL: footnote¹

By Jonathan Andrew Perez

In the footnote: He read Basketball diaries, but he was Latino and he did not wear a shirt titled, Latinidad,…

Salve

By Alexandra Matthews

Bette was stirring her coffee when she saw the postcard, tucked between a large print arthritis monthly and debt consolidation…

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