2nd Place winner for our Ghosts contest by Adam Fell! "Overnight, the lake reveals itself. We wake to the sudden beating of its body against our properties." fracturedlit.com/reckoner/

A brilliant, clever, fabulous story! @jaimegill.bsky.social @unmutualcharlie.bsky.social @fracturedlit.bsky.social

so honored and delighted to see this older story of mine from @fracturedlit.bsky.social included here 💚🦇

No big deal, I was just somehow shortlisted in this contest judged by the writer who revived my interest in short stories and I am totally not going to have approximately 53 panic attacks in the next 4-5 weeks while judging wraps up. @fracturedlit.bsky.social fracturedlit.com/fractured-li...

Thanks to @mattkendrick.bsky.social for providing this excellent flash resource! And thanks as always to @fracturedlit.bsky.social for publishing the story!

A beautifully-put-together short piece. And the ending Is just the cherry on the top. 🍒

I was traveling last week and completely missed that my story went up @fracturedlit.bsky.social. fracturedlit.com/out-of-season/ This was crafted in the wonderful summer workshop run by @smokelong.bsky.social. Thank you SO much to all my groupmates who helped me get this into shape! #flashfiction

The Smart Search List of the Day is: Paying Fee-Free Literary Fiction feat. @apexmag.bsky.social @therumpus.net @foglifterpress.bsky.social @fracturedlit.bsky.social @tirmag.org et al. https://duotrope.com...

Compelling and smartly constructed slice of flash from @jaimegill.bsky.social and @unmutualcharlie.bsky.social on @fracturedlit.bsky.social: fracturedlit.com/before-the-e... #booksky #writingcommunity

Last year my friend Jaime (@jaimegill.bsky.social) and I started collaborating on some short stories. The first of these - which Jaime wants you to know started as my idea, with my initial draft - is out today in Fractured Lit (@fracturedlit.bsky.social). fracturedlit.com/before-the-e...

This story’s a big deal to me for many reasons. It was my first collaboration with my friend @unmutualcharlie.bsky.social who wrote most, making it so intricate & gorgeous. Its in a dream title, @fracturedlit.bsky.social. And I love love love it. Maybe you will too? fracturedlit.com/before-the-e...

Gorgeous story in @fracturedlit.bsky.social by @jaimegill.bsky.social & @unmutualcharlie.bsky.social 💥

3rd Place Winner of our Ghosts contest by Pascha Sotolongo! "Between Abuela’s mobile home and mine, a white sand path interweaves the moonlit scrub pine." fracturedlit.com/owl-fantasma/

(...2/2) More Fiction from: blog fave Kelli Dianne Rule @kdiannerule.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social ‬ Adam Forrester in @mrbullbull.bsky.social Sherry Mayle in @fracturedlit.bsky.social Links to the stories here:

"Zen Lyrics for the Carhartt Guru" by Sherry Mayle is everything. Thanks to @turnandwork.com for bringing it to my attention and to @fracturedlit.bsky.social for publishing it. fracturedlit.com/zen-lyrics-f...

New Micro by Hannah Goss! "Seeking a companion. Need not be romantic; platonic is fine." fracturedlit.com/companion-wa...

A perfect story! ☕️

New Micro by Jay McKenzie! "Capuchin monkeys are named after the monks who are named after the drink or something like that, could be the other way around, so when Sam says that Olivia’s voice is like cappuccino, we nod..." fracturedlit.com/cappuccino/

(3/3) ...plus Claire Gallagher in @fracturedlit.bsky.social Cate McGowan @catemcgowan.com ‬ in @offbeatlit.bsky.social and Ella Mae in @maudlinhouse.bsky.social

“Echoes” in @fracturedlit.bsky.social fracturedlit.com/echoes/

“That weed is downright stealing the space of what’s ours. You know what I mean.” I did, and she knew it." Beth Cho Little in @fracturedlit.bsky.social

honored and excited to have my flash story "China Plate" forthcoming in @fracturedlit.bsky.social and shortlisted for their Gods & Monsters Challenge! Congratulations to the winners, and excited to read their work 🖤 fracturedlit.com/fractured-li...

Wenyi Xue's "god bless america," an incisive critique of u.s. imperial power + christian hegemony. Xue's work can also be found in @eunoiareview.bsky.social, @fracturedlit.bsky.social, and more.

"The men are dying . . . beautiful boys ugly-cry too." On-point rendering by @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social in his story "Boys in Boxes," Published in @fracturedlit.bsky.social fracturedlit.com/boys-in-boxes/

Maybe this exquisite corpse that ran in Fractured a few years ago? @fracturedlit.bsky.social

Includes links to pieces by @andrewbertaina.bsky.social @mynachang.bsky.social @writesofkathryn.bsky.social @susmitab.bsky.social @amadolaila.bsky.social @aniking.bsky.social @mandirapattnaik.bsky.social @dallonwrites.bsky.social @fracturedlit.bsky.social @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social & more!

If you have a bit of publishing experience and you'dl ike to read for @fracturedlit.bsky.social or @uncharted.bsky.social , please let me know! Volunteer positions are open, and we're flexible on assignments! Usually just 3-4 hours per week or less!

Ooh @judehwriter2.bsky.social @adhocfiction.bsky.social @splitlipthemag.bsky.social @fracturedlit.bsky.social run a chapbook contest, @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social @chestnutreview.bsky.social @vpresslit.bsky.social

(2/2) ...and fiction from: Lena Kinder @happilylenaaa.bsky.social‬ in @flashfrog.bsky.social Kay Nguyen in @fracturedlit.bsky.social Bella Gibb and Zoe Ballering in @cincinnatireview.bsky.social David O’Dwyer in TSS Publishing #indieauthors #shortstories

wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/saturday-s... Check out our new batch of lit mag and small press listings, including @burningword.bsky.social @bluestemmag.bsky.social @muleskinnerjournal.bsky.social @weirdlitmag.bsky.social @fracturedlit.bsky.social Cagibi Lit, Hive Avenue, and more

The Smart Search List of the Day is: Literary Flash Fiction feat. @theoffingmag.bsky.social @fracturedlit.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com...

...and lights-out short stories from: Wade Harris and Alex Gurtis in @maudlinhouse.bsky.social Emma Burger in @xraylitmag.bsky.social Deb Waters @debwrites.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social Grace Byron @emotrophywife.bsky.social in Relegation Books (2/2)

"He moves like a twister surging through a pasture." I'm in awe of this story by Thomas Kearnes. And I say that without exaggeration because I was the first reader for it. I was unsettled after reading it the first time, and I still am. @fracturedlit.bsky.social fracturedlit.com/shame/

Just, amazing 🦅: fracturedlit.com/birds/ @fracturedlit.bsky.social

Featuring: Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social Uncanny @uncannymagazine.bsky.social Apex @apexmag.bsky.social Hex @hexliterary.bsky.social Porter House Review Fractured Lit @fracturedlit.bsky.social Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com +

For @fracturedlit.bsky.social, Caren Beilin and I talked about grudges, the Oulipo, concision, and fucked up art. Her novel Sea, Poison is out on 10/7 from @ndbooks.bsky.social! fracturedlit.com/too-sick-too...

super excited to have found my lucky way onto the @fracturedlit.bsky.social Gods & Monsters Challenge shortlist! 🖤

Anthology 5 winner by Deborah J. Hunter! "I was on our excuse for a back porch, no one ever put in screens, and it smelled like oranges under my finger nails." fracturedlit.com/dog-years/

Still reading this piece from months ago and tasting it in my mouth because it’s just that beautiful

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.

"The searing wind sweeps up the dust as we shut the door behind us." Looove this one by @brechtdp.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social fracturedlit.com/the-flavours...

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/

Honoured my piece, Bakunawa and the Seven Sisters is on @fracturedlit.bsky.social ‘s shortlist. It mixes Filipino and Chinese mythologies! fracturedlit.com/fractured-li...

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!

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! 😘😘

The Smart Search List of the Day is: Paying General Flash Fiction feat. @therumpus.net @fracturedlit.bsky.social @flashpointsf.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com...

"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

“… 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...

“How the blue never ends.” Oh, wow, this poignant beauty by @kelliborges2.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social!❤️💔

Got myself a weird lil’ mixed up fairy tale on the @fracturedlit.bsky.social shortlist! 🐺🌜 fracturedlit.com/fractured-li...