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Still reading this piece from months ago and tasting it in my mouth because it’s just that beautiful
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Chiara will never know the weight of their fruit, the juice squeezing between your toes as you squash the grapes ...
@brechtdp.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social ! So much sensory beauty against such loss from climate change.
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Nest - Fractured
“The birds are always watching,” Mama used to say. We had a bird cage in nearly every room of the house. The parakeets in the living room seemed more at home than I did. The lovebirds in the kitchen r...
New Anthology 5 flash by Genevieve Eichammer!
“The birds are always watching,” Mama used to say. We had a bird cage in nearly every room of the house. The parakeets in the living room seemed more at home than I did."
fracturedlit.com/nest/
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I am so honored and excited that my story was chosen for this anthology! Thank you, Fractured Lit, for your positivity, support, and enthusiasm throughout the contest (and in general!) ✨ And I am such an admirer of #TaraIsabelZambrano, too!
20.07.2025 02:35 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Aw poor you, Katie. Maybe you could find something on here to read in the next 30 mins while you wait. @fracturedlit.bsky.social has some lovely stuff! And it’s flash so it won’t take long! 😘😘
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"From Clay, God" is a nasty little monster of a story that snuck onto the #shortlist at @fracturedlit.bsky.social Gods & Monsters contest. I have collected over 30 rejections so far in 2025, and this is a wonderful wink of recognition I sorely needed.
#amwriting #weirdlit #flashfiction
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We’ll Finally Go to Switzerland - Fractured
he says, as soon as this is over. She lists the names of towns she’s always wanted to see, foreign and sticky on her tongue, Lauterbrunnen, Lucerne, Zermatt, as they sit abreast at the infusion center...
“… how he’s never seen any place as beautiful, the ice clear and aquamarine, how it glows as if lit within. How you get so cold it hurts, but only for a moment, how quickly the numb kills the pain.”
@kelliborges2.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social fracturedlit.com/well-finally...
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“How the blue never ends.”
Oh, wow, this poignant beauty by @kelliborges2.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social!❤️💔
17.07.2025 10:25 — 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 4 📌 0
A blue-tinted image of an isolated cabin by a stream, with a dark forest and looming mountains behind, and a huge full moon above. Overlaid text says: Fractured Lit ghost, fable, and fair tales prize shortlist. Guest judge: Dan Chaon.
Got myself a weird lil’ mixed up fairy tale on the @fracturedlit.bsky.social shortlist! 🐺🌜
fracturedlit.com/fractured-li...
17.07.2025 17:23 — 👍 17 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0
Jigsaw - Fractured
My sister Jane and I make the ideal jigsaw puzzle partnership. She’s more organized than me, the one who categorizes and compartmentalizes, but I have all the patience. Most recently, we tried a 1,000...
New Anthology 5 Winner by Anna Cabreros!
"My sister Jane and I make the ideal jigsaw puzzle partnership. She’s more organized than me, the one who categorizes and compartmentalizes, but I have all the patience."
fracturedlit.com/jigsaw/
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July 2025
Ten stories picked by Jenny Wong
This month's #Mondettes picked by @jenwithwords.bsky.social
⚡Ten wonderful flash fictions
🔍Ten splashes of analysis as to why Jenny made these brilliant picks
🪴Two fantastic prompts to get you writing
mondettes.substack.com/p/july-2025
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Includes links to pieces by @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social @ezhang77.bsky.social @kelliborges2.bsky.social @francinewitte.bsky.social @laughingyeti.bsky.social @happilander.bsky.social @nomad-sw18.bsky.social @marcellenewbold.bsky.social @emmapwrites.bsky.social @sylviasays2.bsky.social
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Fractured Lit Gods & Monsters Challenge Longlist - Fractured
We will admit that the stories from this challenge lit up our brains in all the right ways! So much creativity and thrilling stories in our queue, but we found a longlist of 21 stories! And we're work...
A shot of light in the dark: my flash story "From God, Clay" was longlisted for @fracturedlit.bsky.social Gods & Monsters Challenge.
This story is about grief, creation, and parenthood. I'm so honored. Let's keep making monsters.
#amwriting #horror #weirdfiction
fracturedlit.com/fractured-li...
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"For once, I don’t want to know what you’re thinking." #flashfiction
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Metafictional brilliance!
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Them stories&poems. Recent stories in The Madrid Review. Poems in The Starbeck Orion. Lived in Australia, Spain and the Netherlands. Ex coalminer, Witness the Dust. Guardian Country Diarist, 21 Bird Poems. Sonnets, Green Balk Lane. Dutch partner. EU. YNWA
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Writing in Booth, Barrelhouse, Milk Candy Review, Jake, MudRoom, and other fun places. Fiction collection And There Came Forth a Great Fish out now.
Debut novel, "Fadeaway Joe," out in 2023 from Crooked Lane Books. Short stories in Down & Out anthologies, Shotgun Honey and Thuglit. 30-plus years a newspaper reporter. Loves dogs, coffee, comics, a good IPA. . www.hughlessig.com.
Poet - debut full collection ‘Frieze’ out now with Nine Arches Press. Managing editor of Irish poetry journal Dodging the Rain.
Writes Spec-Fic & Dark SF
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