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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Rush Week at Kappa Kappa Murder
"The Roommates," flash fiction by Kathleen Barber
Fitting In Will Cost You Your Soul
"In the Heart of the Village" by Emma Binder, recommended by Alyssa Songsiridej for Electric Literature
How to Pray in Female
Two poems by Elina Katrin
His Drunk Excuses Only Last the Night
An excerpt from ORDINARY HUMAN FAILINGS by Megan Nolan, recommended by Kyle Dillon Hertz
Be a Woman, Be Yourself, Be Miserable
"B," an excerpt from ALPHABETICAL DIARIES by Sheila Heti
Her Baby Is a Stranger She Doesn’t Want to Know
"The Box Where Baby Slept" by Mario Giannone, recommended by Wynter K Miller for Electric Literature