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Quarantine Reading with Chelsea Stickle
There are collections that are so good that instead of ripping open the packaging they come in and reading until…
Love Street Blues
I wanted to live on Love Street when I grew up. To steal paperbacks about salvation sex and hide them…
Centipede of the Year
To the centipede I tried to kick down my drain but refused to go. I see you there. Being better…
Interview with Megan Giddings
K Chiucarello: First, I want to say congratulations on your recent Paris Review publication. It is such an astounding essay.…
Of Photography and Truth
Image You’re always embarrassed in photographs, holding up your hand, saying wait, wait, and it’s your hair or your makeup…
5 Flash About Life’s Beginning & 5 Flash About Life’s End
Stories about endings and stories about beginnings cannot be mutually exclusive. Every ending is a new beginning and every beginning…
Small Talk
Around the dining room, the guests make small talk. The talk of some is so small, it is quark-sized. Some…
Supporting Black Lives Matter
Fractured Lit believes that Black Lives Matter, that Black Voices Matter, that Black Art Matters. We believe that the power…
Motherhood/Mouth
Mother is desperate. Baby will not stop crying. Her toothless maw quivers, her eyes slit, her cheeks squinch red. Mother…
All False Starts
That the dog didn’t bark was the first sign. Who acts like that, who, tell me who acts like that…
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