Fractured Lit is dedicated to finding flash fiction that lingers long past the first reading: stories that stay with the reader for days, months, or even years. We want to find flash with emotional resonance, characters we care about, who come to life through their actions and responses to the world around them. We’re searching for Flash that investigates the mysteries of being human, the sorrow and the joy of connecting to the diverse population around us. All stories read horizontally, but we want those that explode vertically, which leaves the conventional and the cliched far behind. Fractured Lit is a flash fiction centered place for all writers of any background and experience. Let us help you tell your stories, the stories we knew we’ve needed all along.
Call your mother at 3 am, and when she asks why you are awake so late, tell her you recently learned that drain flies are fuzzier than fruit flies, even though both have made a home out of your sink. It’s important to keep people on their toes, so follow up this fun fact with…
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Judge Tara Isabel Zambrano has done the difficult task of choosing the twenty winners for this year’s anthology! We’re so excited to publish these twenty stories on our website and then in print! We also want to congratulate the shortlisted writers who trusted us with their writing for this contest! We wish you the best…
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Perhaps you will find yourself in this situation, returning late at night to a university campus, deserted for the summer. This is where all of you visiting chemists are bunking during your one-week Biomolecular conference. You left both your wallet and cell phone in your assigned dorm room because you were rushing out the door…
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