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Recommended Reading
Recommended Reading is your ultimate source for the best in contemporary fiction, including short stories and novel excerpts from today’s most dynamic voices.
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Money Can’t Take the Shame Out of Living
“The Inheritance” by Rachel Ephraim, recommended by Halimah Marcus for Electric Literature
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A Billionaire Bender to Save the Fucking World
An excerpt from THE AUDACITY by Ryan Chapman, recommended by Kevin Nguyen
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My Worst Experiences Haunt Me From the Memory Cloud
"Presence" from GREEN FROG by Gina Chung, recommended by Jade Song
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The Commuter
Poetry, flash, graphic, or experimental narrative arriving every Wednesday morning.
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ISSUE No. 317
Installing Ourselves in the Memory Museum
Apr 3 - William Albert Pagdatoon
Your Body Is a System of Caves
Three poems from THE BLUE MIMES by Sara Daniele Rivera
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Take Me to the Island of Escaped Parrots
Flash fiction by Maya Dobjensky
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This Is Not a Drill or Maybe It Is
Two poems by Emily Moore
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Darling, Please Flatten Me With the Volvo
Two poems from THE STORY OF YOUR OBSTINATE SURVIVAL by Daniel Khalastchi
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A Culinary Visit to the Belly of the Country
"King of All Hogs" by J G Lynas, recommended by Wynter K Miller for Electric Literature
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Lawn Care Tips From My Dad’s Ghost
"Sundays Are for Yard Work," flash fiction by Kate Brody
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Pregnancy Is Turning Her Childfree Marriage Into a Russian Folktale
An excerpt from MOTHER DOLL by Katya Apekina, recommended by Sarah Rose Etter
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We Deserve Applause for Normal Things
Three prose poems by Jeffrey Hermann
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Compulsively Trying to Please People Who Never Liked Me
"A New Book of Grotesques" from GHOST PAINS, by Jessi Jezewska Stevens, recommended by Jeremy M Davies
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