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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“The Inheritance” by Rachel Ephraim, recommended by Halimah Marcus for Electric Literature
A Billionaire Bender to Save the Fucking World
An excerpt from THE AUDACITY by Ryan Chapman, recommended by Kevin Nguyen
My Worst Experiences Haunt Me From the Memory Cloud
"Presence" from GREEN FROG by Gina Chung, recommended by Jade Song
The Commuter
Poetry, flash, graphic, or experimental narrative arriving every Wednesday morning.
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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
Take Me to the Island of Escaped Parrots
Flash fiction by Maya Dobjensky
This Is Not a Drill or Maybe It Is
Two poems by Emily Moore
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My Mom Doesn’t Recognize Me But Neither Do I
Oct 12 - Wendy Wimmer
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The School
Dec 31 - Donald Barthelme
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Is This Dissertation Research or a First Date?
Apr 1 - Lily Meyer
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This Is Not a Drill or Maybe It Is
Mar 13 - 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
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
Lawn Care Tips From My Dad’s Ghost
"Sundays Are for Yard Work," flash fiction by Kate Brody
Pregnancy Is Turning Her Childfree Marriage Into a Russian Folktale
An excerpt from MOTHER DOLL by Katya Apekina, recommended by Sarah Rose Etter
We Deserve Applause for Normal Things
Three prose poems by Jeffrey Hermann
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