Fractured Lit Flash Fiction OPEN Judged by Maurice Carlos Ruffin Shortlist

We’re excited to honor these stories by including them on our shortlist for this contest. Congrats to the writers who have made it this far in the contest! Your piece has been handed over to our Guest Judge, Maurice Carlos Ruffin!

1. Dead Things I Gave Birth To
2. A Short Love Story
3. Humoresque
4. The Anti-Anti Natalists
5. Envelopes
6. Call Me Daddy
7. My brother dead in the Heaven Department
8. Snow
9. No Promises
10. Thursday
11. In the Path of Totality
12. Reel
13. White Trash
14. The Hunt
15. Maybe It Comes Like This
16. The Indigo Dyer
17. One Minute Thirty-Five Seconds
18. The Uranium Bird
19. Brittle Stars
20. The Touch Forecast
21. Good Neighbors
22. Heartbeat
23. Sugar Highs & Lows
24. Sixty, Fifty-Nine, Fifty-Eight
25. Pulse
26. Gizzard
27. Blood-Related
28. Lines Left
29. Bramble
30. My Woman
31. Adrift