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Big Red

By AJ Cunder

It started out small—a red speck hardly noticed on the Harlem sidewalk. Maybe it drifted down from the heavens. Maybe…

Origin Story

By Kyra Kondis

There was a man—there is always a man. There was the crush of gray wave. The cold bite of late…

the 2021 fractured lit ghost, fable, and fractured fairy tale prize shortlist

By Fractured Lit
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We’re proud to announce the 23 titles of our shortlist! The submissions we received were so thrilling, inventive, and affecting…

Rabbit

By Yunya Yang

Years ago, his mother brought home a rabbit. “Make it fat, will you?” she asked him. The boy held the…

the 2021 fractured lit ghost, fable, and fractured fairy tale prize longlist

By Fractured Lit
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We’re proud to announce the 57 titles of our longlist! The submissions we received were so thrilling, inventive, and affecting…

Things Never Stay Warm

By Maria Alejandra Barrios

I wear my dead sister’s lipstick around the house like Grandma told me to. It leaves my lips dry and…

A Nice Blue Place

By David Byron Queen

Our father knows all about fishing, but he doesn’t do it anymore. He doesn’t do a lot of things anymore.…

Motherhood: A Hexaptych

By Candace Hartsuyker

1 She is cold, but they are frost and shiver. She digs them holes in the snow, sweeping ice crystals…

Authentic, Real, and Good

By Jemimah Wei

The truth is I got hired for my looks and promoted for my flexible standards of truth and that is…

Waving Tassels

By David Morgan O'Connor
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Plan to Free  The dog ate the turkey. Then killed all the village swans, piled the white corpses at the…

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