the 2021 fractured lit flash fiction prize shortlist
We’re so excited to announce the 25 titles on our shortlist! We’ll announce the winners’ titles in the next few…
the 2021 fractured lit flash fiction prize longlist
We’re so excited to announce the 52 titles of our longlist! The submissions we received were so original, exciting, and…
Endangered Species
My five-year-old walks the sidewalks with me into town. There is no other place for him. He holds my finger…
Rodney & Chelsea
1. Tangerines Rodney and Chelsea have decided this is the day. They are sixteen years old and they are in…
Connect the Dots Love
N says we’re looking for that Leo and Kate love that crashes sudden, veins fire and ice, the kind where…
A Guide to Small Town Ghosts
“A Guide to Small Town Ghosts” is actually four linked micro-stories, each of which devises and fulfills its own narrative…
The Changeling
Some works of fantasy make you feel that they are not ornamenting reality so much as unearthing one of its…
A Too Small Room
Like a Grimms’ fairy tale transported to Japan, “A Too Small Room” proceeds through a world whose houses, forests, and…
god at the side of the road
“god at the side of the road” has the quality of folklore from centuries ago and worlds away that’s somehow…
The Bone Child
I found the development in the final section of this story genuinely frightening—a dark fantasy in which the element of…
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