Fractured Lit Legends, Myths, & Allegories Prize Longlist

46 stories on our Longlist! We’re working on selecting our shortlist now, and soon we’ll announce those titles and get the stories off to judge Natalie Lima!

1. The Winter Flute
2. Leucosia’s Last Song
3. Surfacing
4. Wild Bill’s Last Ride
5. A Visit from Baba Roga
6. The Money Pin
7. What the Shirt Said
8. I Lived Next Door to Cinderella’ – A Neighbor’s Account
9. Transition Island
10. Another Beatrice
11. For Lack of a Better Name
12. Cave Sky
13. Five Pennies, Blood, and a Dime
14. The Philosophy of Weeds
15. Leanan
16. David Lewis Says
17. What’s Missing
18. The Sea Witch
19. The Martyr
20. Seeli
21. Milk Teeth
22. To Harvest Lavender
23. Hearth
24. Dawn Along the Strand
25. The Cerne Giant in Cold Storage
26. The Soul of A Fish: A Fable
27. Yrin the Destroyer
28. Underdecks
29. The Sometimes Gardener
30. Alice and the Bunyip
31. When The Birds Go Quiet
32. In September, When the Sky was an Open Wound
33. Ways I Was Born
34. Rusalka
35. The Trouble with Dating
36. Pastoral
37. You Can Find Us Near Heaven
38. Scurried
39. We Could Have Been Warlocks
40. Talking Head
41. And The Slabs They Dwelled In
42. The Dirt Eater
43. What Was Left Of Her
44. Varying Degrees of Dead
45. The Strewing of My Hallowed Parts
46. The Fear of Coulrophobia