Fractured Lit Flash Fiction OPEN Shortlist

25 stories made it to our shortlist for this contest! Thank you all for trusting us with your writing! Judge Sara Lippmann is now reading and will make her choices soon!

1. Pairs
2. possible future for our daughter #683
3. Rowdy Yates Slept Here
4. Roadkill
5. Is Now and Ever Shall Be
6. For a Short Time Only
7. Vandals
8. If we name it Mittens, can we please keep the food delivery bot, please?
9. Missed Shifts
10. The Kaiser’s Bullet
11. After Sabbath, Now Laugh
12. We Mistakenly Think It Keeps Growing
13. Unwrecked (Notes on Year IV in the Deep Caribbean)
14. Candied Lemon
15. Intertidal
16. In All The Loveless Places
17. My Mother, the Water Monster
18. The Girl Made of Dirt
19. Piel Muerta / Dead Skin
20. Cheerful
21. Stanislavski’s Fly
22. Four
23. Fullness
24. To the Next Tenant, I Have Left
25. Snagging Blanket