Fractured Lit 2021 Micro Contest Longlist

I’m so proud of our team for reading so many micros! We’re so impressed by the sense of place, the knowledge of character, the use of compression to create resonance in these 52 longlisted micros! Writers please celebrate loudly and proudly, but anonymously as the shortlist will go to our judge anonymously! We’re working hard to narrow these down to 20-25 to send to judge Matthew Salesses!

How to Take Care (of the Environment)

Four Words for Pink

Dorothy Paints Poppies From Memory

mi corazón quiere cantar así

An Instructional Guide on Making Your Cloud Bleed

Afterwards

Offerings Story

freedom fighters

impossible things that might come true

How to Leave Your First Husband

genealogy of red

Sunday

My Tamagotchi Girlfriend

When I Stole All the Streets that Weren’t Streets

AIR RAID

Name the Fish in the River

One Morning in Maine

Salt

What My Grandmother HIdes

Brain Food

Not Interested

Week Six on the Day Ward

Things the sun told me while waiting for your Forgiveness

Two Sides of a Pale Coin

Tangerine

Back Before

Baby Hearts

Physical Touch is My Love Language

Coming Round

Bones

The Orbital Distance of Love, or The Night You Became Jupiter

Tag-along

Boto

Fire Eater

Bonfire

Banerry

Eating Your Heart Out

Pure Carat

Honk

Mikey

The Zen Garden

When You Come Home From Nashville

The Dragonfly

Time with Sarah

Living in the Cusp

Second Thoughts

The Last Thing They Expected

The Aquarium

Empathy

To Be A Woman

Hook Ups

Game / Show / Over