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fractured flash fiction magazine flash micro submissions 2026 elsewhere prize july 20 2026 to september 20 2026 past awards 2026 flash fiction open may 11 2026 to july 12 2026 2026 ekphrastic hopper challenge april 27 2026 to may 10 2026 2026 ghost fable and fairytales prize february 16 2026 to april 19 2026 2025 2025 micro prize december 01 2025 to february 01 2026 fractured fused prize closed 2025 elsewhere prize closed 2025 flash fiction open 2025 fractured lit gods monsters challenge 2025 ghost fable and fairy tales prize 2025 fractured lit anthology 5 prize 2024 fractured lit 2024 elsewhere prize 2024 fractured lit flash fiction open fractured lit work play challenge fractured lit chapbook prize fractured lit ghost fable and fairy tales prize 2024 fractured lit anthology 4 prize micro prize 2023 fractured lit elsewhere prize feedback frenzy fractured lit flash fiction open micro challenge fractured lit legends myths allegories prize fractured lit anthology 3 prize 2022 2022 micro fiction prize 2022 flash lab 2022 fractured lit ghost fable and fractured fairy tale prize fractured lit reprint prize 2021 2021 anthology i prize 2021 fractured lit monsters mystery and mayhem prize 2021 flash fiction prize 2021 micro fiction prize 2020 2020 flash fiction prize 2020 micro fiction prize calendar about news interviews about us faq submit fiction that lingers long after the flash hubcap by kip knott august 10 2026 flash fiction 0 comments last light by sandrina dorigo august 6 2026 flash fiction 0 comments ghost fable and fairy tales prize judged by melissa llanes brownlee shortlist by fractured lit august 3 2026 news 0 comments the lower nobility by stephen tuttle august 3 2026 flash fiction 0 comments read all flash hubcap by kip knott aug 10 2026 flash fiction i hold on so tightly i lose my grip the hubcap clatters to the floor like a platter thrown during a lovers spat go to hell i yell then i m sorry i didn t mean it i pull on a pair of gray sweats and a dirty white t shirt four red lines bleed through the read more last light by sandrina dorigo aug 6 2026 flash fiction the setting sun made a fire deep in the amber of its eye unblinking and somehow changed blood shone like tree sap inside a dark nostril the body lay on its side the older of the two boys grabbed one leg and the younger the other and with heels digging and read more the lower nobility by stephen tuttle aug 3 2026 flash fiction when we were just teenagers this friend of mine bought a suit of armor to get it he worked an extra job and saved every penny and he could talk of nothing else before i ever saw it i knew how thick the plating would be how the various pieces would connect and read more sweetie s a mess by heather aronson jul 30 2026 flash fiction it s a deer in the weeds at the side of the road or maybe a golden lab something that makes sense of all that yellow in the late afternoon sun too late my brain trips over the bright blue shirt and i m already down the highway when i take my foot off the gas a read more barbie girls by mary decarlo jul 27 2026 flash fiction when we saw the hot pink barbie branded corvette sitting in our neighbor s trash pile we hesitated aggie and tim were our summertime neighbors kids who lived next door three months out of the year with their grandma our full time neighbor aggie liked to say their read more gretel overhears her parents by cheryl pappas jun 22 2026 flash fiction gretel wakes in the middle of the night with the kind of hunger that claws at your insides as if it were a feral creature trying to get back to the woods she hears hansel s soft breathing in the dark the faint sound of jazz downstairs and the distant tremulous read more in dreams you re mine all of the time by patricia q bidar jun 22 2026 flash fiction james was grieving the death of his father who d mistrusted michaela too dark a horse he d warned she d be the one to break him james had told michaela this in bed laughing after a good and unhurried sexual encounter the night their daughter was conceived the read more snow by pamela painter jun 4 2026 flash fiction we have nine snowmen in our front yard one snow child in the past month or two i rolled lifted and balanced balls of snow for their snow bodies searched for sturdy twigs my wife peeled carrots dumped raisins in a dish ransacked closets for hats and read more the space between me and them by tara van de mark may 28 2026 flash fiction i m riding shotgun with our big grandma of a fridge sticking out the back she s sandwiched between the hatch and the rusted bumper tied by the rope from my tire swing i rub her smooth metal top where she held my cereal we re headed to the dump it s where dad read more read all flash micro dead woman s crossing by chris haven jul 27 2026 micro when you approach the bridge you will hear her moans the teenagers go to dead woman s crossing in search of love and destruction it s darker there on this church hayride night flatbed truck with wooden benches and a scattering of hay driver crawls to the spot read more cardboard graveyard by julia gilmour jul 27 2026 micro a box sits broken down across my lap i slide out of the car into the garage and slip the box behind the tool bench it s there with nine other empty boxes dozens more pile up around me my husband says it s time to get rid of my collection they re not hurting read more the golden ray by sarp sozdinler jul 17 2026 micro we flush my sister s goldfish down the toilet at three in the morning she says the poor creature suffered a lot due to a condition inherent in all fish past twenty i hold the flashlight its beam stuttering over scales the fish s eyes look small like black seeds read more she carried his leg by marissa mcnamara jul 9 2026 micro first she cradled it like a child then put it between her legs and galloped like a horse next slung it over her shoulder like a rifle and she stood at attention the leg at the ready the leg was more than she had intended to take so greedy she chastised until read more we didn t wear masks by claudia monpere jun 29 2026 micro because the tightness the itch the stiff rectangle smothering us because eyes bore when mouth and nose hide because micro mold the uglies didn t get vaccinated because well duh didn t quarantine because we re all god s children except those who aren t we didn t read more blackout whiteout by leah browning jun 25 2026 micro blackout i walked into the theatre halfway through the performance the ushers were all on their phones and no one stopped me all the way down the aisle in the dark i dragged a heavy duty black garbage bag filled with things he had left behind in my apartment read more the taxonomy of the echo by j m c kane jun 16 2026 micro the first time the house swallowed a sound we blamed the insulation a penny fell from your fingers flashed once and never landed by june the kitchen had gone almost entirely mute a plate could burst across the linoleum without a crack we learned to live by read more neon afterparty by mileva anastasiadou jun 1 2026 micro 1 the ghost of sylvia plath sylvia plath is tired of things but we have trapped her inside our minds and we want more she did her part and she performed but we are greedy and we clap and cheer and stamp our feet for an encore because she left too soon sylvia read more mother by l michelle nichols may 21 2026 micro what you leave out when you tell the police about it is how the woman reminded you of your mother charismatic and brash with short cropped black hair greying at the temples the woman had dark eyes that flashed when music played and she drummed her fingers against read more read all micro contest winners the vanishing hitchhiker by j r chapple jul 13 2026 contest winner she first appears as a pale yellow blur in the darkness her figure solidifying as i approach all taffeta and ribbon her extended thumb seems to glow accentuated by a dainty white glove she looks normal human so tangible that i laugh as i pull onto the shoulder read more beyond salt and wings by rostislava ronnie pankova karadjova may 14 2026 contest winner flash fiction the bird was wild with fear entangled in the fishing rod line wings awkwardly stretched feet dangling mid air it leaped and bounced and swayed a puppet on a string dancing a macabre pas de deux over the wordless song of the waves more frightened than the bird the read more grief is a noose around my neck by micaela taing may 11 2026 contest winner flash fiction the dumb bomb that dropped on my mother s house did not explode instead it flattened the dinner table and severed the left leg of my uncle he had just finished eating a bowl of chè đậu trắng my favourite dessert when the roof caved in on them it was not an read more being by jamie burke may 7 2026 contest winner flash fiction what did the octopus know each day at work when alice fed it or cleaned its tank or gave it some item to keep it busy a rubber dog toy a teething ring she wondered she watched its eight roving arms moving around the enclosure all independent from whatever was read more problems of inheritance law in fig country chapter 117 by jane yager apr 15 2026 contest winner flash fiction now let us consider the problem of the man with three children and one fig tree in the talionis commentaries we find a man whose will ordains that each fig be split into three equal pieces this solution is just but impractical the annotations of marduk speak of a read more rock dove by megan lui mar 16 2026 contest winner flash fiction the pigeon first flew to me the same morning that a stranger found my grandfather melting into the midsummer pavement in a mirage of dementia my mother texted me that his hospital room had sealed windows facing a brick wall and was daubed with longitudinal streaks of read more hypnagogia by david ryan mar 16 2026 contest winner flash fiction you re moving through the lasts when you lived for a time with farmers in the northern country you and your wife and daughter had a little room above a cottage beside one of the barns that had begun to buckle like a foal a wooden bucket in the barn opened like a read more blackboxing by anna cabe mar 2 2026 contest winner flash fiction the chatbot tells me i shouldn t kill myself today the chatbot is not a trusted adult but it is the closest i have to one the chatbot has only existed as long as a toddler gumming on a laundry pod the chatbot when i asked it to write a meal plan with no read more ah ma is a reusable bag by wanying zhang mar 2 2026 contest winner flash fiction ah ma carries apples bananas chunks of bok choy oyster mushrooms lychees dragon fruits raspberries chinese broccoli ground chicken and five spice powder her straps are sturdy tested many times we cram as many groceries as possible into her and still she read more read all winners links about us calendar faq terms and conditions privacy policy follow us follow follow follow join our newsletter