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..." fracturedlit.com/flash-fictio...

"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: fracturedlit.com/what-were-yo...

"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

Savera Zachariah@savzac.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Thrilled to be a finalist in Fractured Lit's 2025 Flash Fiction Open contest. Thanks @fracturedlit.bsky.social for this honour. fracturedlit.com/body-count/

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 fracturedlit.com/sometimes-gr...

'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

Allison Field Bell@allisonfieldbell.bsky.social · 9mo ago

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

"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 💙💙💙

Allison Field Bell@allisonfieldbell.bsky.social · 9mo ago

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

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

Laura Cooney *Motherbunnet* on sale@lozzawriting.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I'm so out of the loop at the moment. Any suggestions for anywhere open for a bit of flash fiction? #flashfiction

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 (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:

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.

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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

weekly talk story about @fracturedlit.bsky.social's contest... www.melissallanesbrownlee.com/talk-story/2...

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...

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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:

The Shortlist for February 20 - Turn & Work

Fiction from

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

Turn and Work (Hugh)@turnandwork.com · 8mo ago

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:

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

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. ...

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

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

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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 . fracturedlit.com/dead-mother-...

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-...

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

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.

Fractured Lit@fracturedlit.bsky.social · 9mo ago

st story of 2026 by @sagetyrtle.bsky.social ! "You are a billionaire’s new, about-to-turn-19 wife. You are the youngest person at the Mint Green Party, which is being held in Central Park." fracturedlit.com/the-billiona...

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

Fractured Lit@fracturedlit.bsky.social · 9mo ago

st story of 2026 by @sagetyrtle.bsky.social ! "You are a billionaire’s new, about-to-turn-19 wife. You are the youngest person at the Mint Green Party, which is being held in Central Park." fracturedlit.com/the-billiona...

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

June Gemmell@junegemmell.bsky.social · 9mo ago

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

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 1/2

Haven't been Blueskying enough lately but was inspired to pop in to say I just read an incredibly brilliant piece on @fracturedlit.bsky.social by Sage Tyrtle. The use of surreal combined with all-too-frightening reality is uncanny and stunning. fracturedlit.com/the-billiona...

Read @sagetyrtle.bsky.social's latest in @fracturedlit.bsky.social about the billionaires: "The after-dinner entertainment starts, a comedy set consisting of real New York City residents reading their real medical bills out loud." What a way to make your fiction sear 🔥 *chef's kiss*

Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦@sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 9mo ago

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

“You are the youngest person at the Mint Green Party, which is being held in Central Park. Everything is mint green. Even the earrings.” This is brilliant! @fracturedlit.bsky.social @sagetyrtle.bsky.social

Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦@sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 9mo ago

This is the inspiration for my Fractured Lit piece - this VERY creepy group (it's a rich person thing, they all dress in white and eat dinner in public and are richer than you) was outside our highrise window. My son @daeganl.bsky.social is the photographer. fracturedlit.com/the-billiona...

"Inside, you run your fingers over the real marble counter and the soap, which a little card tells you was made by children, but in a good way." Stop, drop, and read this one, pronto.

Fractured Lit@fracturedlit.bsky.social · 9mo ago

st story of 2026 by @sagetyrtle.bsky.social ! "You are a billionaire’s new, about-to-turn-19 wife. You are the youngest person at the Mint Green Party, which is being held in Central Park." fracturedlit.com/the-billiona...