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Mausoleum of Gloaming

By Aimee Parkison

Crypt 1: Broomstick Skirts In robes of shell pink sunset over woodland hills, girls float the river to dance on…

A Fractured Reader’s Perspective: The 5 Most Common Reasons I Decline a Piece, and What to Do About Them

By Evander Lang

I’ve been a reader with Fractured since January 2024, and in that time, I’ve read hundreds of submissions. I’ve found…

Mom gets me a dog for my ninth birthday because she says all kids should have a dog

By Dawn Tasaka Steffler

But I didn’t ask for a dog. I asked for Grand Theft Auto. Mom says, “There are things in that…

What My Hands Remember

By Marty Keller

The vibration of the harvest gold phone that hung from our kitchen wall the last Sunday you called. Mom’s fingernails…

Horsebroken

By Meg Pokrass

Handcuffs  On the way to see our boy in the detention centre I was wearing invisible handcuffs. “Don’t try to…

Fractured Lit Flash Fiction OPEN Judged by Maurice Carlos Ruffin Shortlist

By Fractured Lit

We’re excited to honor these stories by including them on our shortlist for this contest. Congrats to the writers who…

Fastball

By Ani King

Thinking about how she flung a softball right into my dad’s eye. How with her he was like helluva pitch,…

The Life of the Mother

By Susan Perabo

Content Warning: Miscarriage, abortion Following the meeting with the doctor, there was no thought of a baby shower. Too much…

 Where I Come From . . .

By Sudha Balagopal

the house had jasmine bushes that scented the backyard, veiling the odors from our rubbish bins. It’s where my sisters…

Whirlwing Daughter

By Phoua Lee

eggrolls should be rolled tight. they taste better that way & men like them like that too but Ntxawm is…

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