Fractured Lit

New Interview of @tcboudreau by @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social about Timothy's new collection, published by @StanchionZine next week!

"...flash fiction is freedom; it encourages us to play, to make something short, strange, and intense..."

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"Your body quiets in a strange relief, grateful for a kind stranger, too anxious to still make it on time"

Wow, this is such powerful writing from @christinaberke.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social:

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"Once the arrack had done its thing, he collapsed onto the broken chair and slept, snoring like a lorry belching smoke down the ghat road"

Such rich, evocative writing from @savzac.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social

Loved this prize-winning flash fiction set in San Francisco’s Chinatown not long after the Great Fire of 1906. Well done Deborah J. Chinn!

(via @fracturedlit.bsky.social)

it’s a strange time to share anything right now but I do have a new flash up @fracturedlit.bsky.social

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'They are standing on the woman’s porch. The woman and her friend. They stare at the road in front of them. Empty. And beyond the road, an apple orchard. And beyond that: sky. Night sky. Stars, and a hint of moonrise.' A beautiful piece by @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social

"The woman is alone on the porch. The apple orchard dips into darkness, and she hears the owl, imagines her flapping her wings."

I love the way @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social writes. This remarkable piece in @fracturedlit.bsky.social 💙💙💙

Thanks for a Wonderful Welkin this year again Matt!
For more flashy stuff try the new @thin-skin.bsky.social issue.
Also @fracturedlit.bsky.social
@trashcatlit.bsky.social
@frazzledlit.bsky.social
@gonelawn.bsky.social
Is that enough to keep you going? 😊

Hi Laura,
@gonelawn.bsky.social
@fracturedlit.bsky.social - Ghosts, Fables, Fairytales opens Feb 16th
@natflashfictionday.bsky.social - various
@flash500.bsky.social

Get writing! xx

I coil her name between my fist. What do you know about stars? I ask her, our lips both bloodied by Arby’s burger sauce. Enough, she says. Enough to understand why you hate them. Why you can’t look up. "Kismet," by Claire Guo in @fracturedlit.bsky.social !!

The Shortlist for February 13, 2026 - Turn & Work An exclusive from James Vella, plus Wim Hylen, Mallory Smart, Alyson Floyd, Effie Seiberg, Eliza Gilbert, and Henrick Karoliszyn.

The Shortlist for February 13 (2/2):

Links to brilliant work by:

Alyson Floyd in @maudlinhouse.bsky.social
Effie Seiberg @effies.bsky.social in @lightspeedmagazine.com
Eliza Gilbert in @fracturedlit.bsky.social

Links here:

flash fiction Friday review of "Sometimes Grief is a Moonrise" by @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social, published in @fracturedlit.bsky.social. The piece is a heartache of complicated emotional processing. Read my brief review here:

read-short-stories.com

I'm Judging Fractured Lit's Ghost, Fable, and Fairytale Contest — Melissa Llanes Brownlee I am so honored to be judging Fractured Lit’s Ghost, Fable, and Fairytale Contest! I hope you send something in! As of today’s talk story, the marginalized writers option for free submissions is still...

weekly talk story about @fracturedlit.bsky.social's contest...

www.melissallanesbrownlee.com/talk-story/2...

The Shortlist for February 20 - Turn & Work Fiction from

The Shortlist, Feb 20:
Five lights-out flash fiction stories.

Lila-Rose Beckford in @maudlinhouse.bsky.social
@amykdebellis.bsky.social in Root Smoke
@allisonfieldbell.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social‬
E Ce Miller in @hfr.bsky.social
@cbwell.bsky.social in @mrbullbull.bsky.social

Links:

This wonderful list! Honored to have my @fracturedlit.bsky.social story here! Thank you @turnandwork.com 💕

Fractured Literary Submission Manager fiction that lingers long after the flashFractured Lit publishes flash fiction with emotional resonance, with characters who come to life through their actions and responses to the world around them. ...

So happy to join the team of readers at the brilliant @fracturedlit.bsky.social. Submit your "fiction that lingers long after the flash" micros and flash stories. I've admired this journal for a long time, and read every issue. Hope to read your words! fracturedlit.submittable.com/submit

Thank you!!

Listing of the Day Today's listing of the day is: Fractured Lit Ghost, Fable, and Fractured Fairy Tales Prize @fracturedlit.bsky.social (fee-based) #WritingCommunity

Today's listing of the day is: Fractured Lit Ghost, Fable, and Fractured Fairy Tales Prize @fracturedlit.bsky.social (fee-based) #WritingCommunity

So excited to share “dead Mother Card,” up at @fracturedlit.bsky.social today!
fracturedlit.com/dead-mother-...

Can always count on @emilyrinkema.bsky.social to tell me a good story. This one in @fracturedlit.bsky.social .

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We're thrilled to showcase your writing!

It was an honor to have "DMC" chosen as a finalist for the @fracturedlit.bsky.social Flash Fiction Open, particularly to know it was read by the incredible @gwenekirby.bsky.social! And thanks, of course, to @smokelong.bsky.social where the story began last summer. fracturedlit.com/dead-mother-...

We can't wait!!!!

excited to have a new flash forthcoming in @fracturedlit.bsky.social later this spring! keep an eye out 👀

We're thrilled to showcase your writing!

DREAM LITMAG REALIZED! This is the VERY exciting acceptance I got in November, I've been sending my work in to @fracturedlit.bsky.social for FIVE YEARS! This piece starts, "You are a billionaire’s new, about-to-turn-19 wife..."

fracturedlit.com/the-billiona...

#FlashFiction #FlashLit

I am so excited to see this piece from @sagetyrtle.bsky.social out today. It’s a good one and gives me Inside Number 9 or Black Mirror shivers in a good way.

Oh WOW! A stunning piece
by @sagetyrtle.bsky.social
You need to read this today. 🤩

This really is excellent. Thanks for sharing, June and wow, @sagetyrtle.bsky.social and @fracturedlit.bsky.social
Wow.

Wee bit late with this, but I just wanted to express my undying gratitude to the competitions and publications that accepted, published and/or long- and short-listed my work in 2025:
@welkinprize.bsky.social
@fracturedlit.bsky.social
@ekphrasticreview.bsky.social
@bathflashaward.bsky.social
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