Fractured Lit Flash Fiction OPEN Longlist

51 stories made it to your longlist for this contest! Thank you all for trusting us with your writing! We’ll be narrowing down our Shortlist of 25 for Judge Sara Lippmann’s review!

1. Pairs
2. possible future for our daughter #683
3. Rowdy Yates Slept Here
4. Roadkill
5. Is Now and Ever Shall Be
6. Narrative Therapy
7. Nothing in Life
8. For a Short Time Only
9. Vandals
10. Deliverance of Grief
11. Sweet Tooth
12. If we name it Mittens, can we please keep the food delivery bot, please?
13. Missed Shifts
14. The Kaiser’s Bullet
15. To Be More Than a Good Daughter
16. A Skeptic’s Guide to Post-Apocalyptic Cosmology
17. Between Water and Sky
18. Void
19. Up in the Rafters
20. Afterwards
21. Fruit Salad
22. Red on Yellow
23. One Day on the Gaspé Peninsula
24. After Sabbath, Now Laugh
25. We Mistakenly Think It Keeps Growing
26. Unwrecked (Notes on Year IV in the Deep Caribbean)
27. Candied Lemon
28. For You Page
29. Intertidal
30. In All The Loveless Places
31. My Mother, the Water Monster
32. The Girl Made of Dirt
33. Last Wish
34. Bespoke Birth Chart Baby – a Modern Fable
35. The Potato Field
36. Piel Muerta / Dead Skin
37. Rosie and the Wolf
38. Cheerful
39. Looking Up
40. Shikar (The Hunt)
41. Hatching Moths
42. Stanislavski’s Fly
43. Four
44. Fullness
45. To the Next Tenant, I Have Left
46. The Bad Ones
47. The Littlest Krampus
48. How About Not
49. Snagging Blanket
50. Mouthful
51. Eulogy