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A thread of what we published in August!
"My ancestors were star smugglers. Becoming a mule was their only way out of the darkness." @NeilRClark https://fracturedlit.com/cosmic-micros-2020/">https://fracturedlit.com/cosmic-mi...
"He could finger roll like Ewing. He could fake to one side while backing down a privileged white boy in Carl Schulz park on 86th street near the East River, like Pippen (but not Mike)." @hilliconjustice https://fracturedlit.com/basketball-footnote%c2%b9/">https://fracturedlit.com/basketbal...
"The Stuntman Cuts through the water like shears through velvet. Like an arrow through the apple on a little boy’s head. Like any number of sharp things through lovely, yielding softness." @mcarphil https://fracturedlit.com/it-came-from-the-bottom-of-the-lake-1954/">https://fracturedlit.com/it-came-f...
"Because we are inoculated, none of us will get the mumps that year or the next, though Davie Gray will spend a month in the hospital in eighth grade and come back to us a shadow, skinny as a scarecrow and sterile," @sfreligh https://fracturedlit.com/epidemic/ ">https://fracturedlit.com/epidemic/...
"Me and Eddie on the Boulevard waiting to cross. My heart tick, ticking like a stupid clock. Eddie and his dark hair forest, his blue eye ocean. Eddie, who is only 15." @francinewitte https://fracturedlit.com/witte/ ">https://fracturedlit.com/witte/&qu...
"It was a bright, gray day with no breeze, and she had just finished digging a grave. She’d woken that morning and her turtle had not." @RebekahBergman https://fracturedlit.com/the-tornado/ ">https://fracturedlit.com/the-torna...
"Bette was stirring her coffee when she saw the postcard, tucked between a large print arthritis monthly and debt consolidation offers." @AlexandraMMatt1 https://fracturedlit.com/salve/ ">https://fracturedlit.com/salve/&qu...
"Maggie has clouds for eyes. Also, she barely talks. Other kids have asked her how those clouds got stuck there, but she just blinks back, clouds churning." @KaraVernor https://fracturedlit.com/ants/ ">https://fracturedlit.com/ants/&quo...
"I love similes! They’re the most fun, imaginative, and artful thing to write, as well as one of the most pleasurable things to read. "
@kimmagowan https://fracturedlit.com/a-flash-perspective-interview-with-kim-magowan/">https://fracturedlit.com/a-flash-p...
@kimmagowan https://fracturedlit.com/a-flash-perspective-interview-with-kim-magowan/">https://fracturedlit.com/a-flash-p...
