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Audio: “Star Witness” | A Story in Seven Parts

Joe Meno's serialized story in audio form

Audio: “Star Witness” | A Story in Seven Parts

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Exclusively for our members, we will release audio editions of each episode of Joe Meno’s serial short story, “Star Witness,” here every Friday beginning August 18.

Episode 1: The Girl Goes Missing

Episode 2: Shelley Enters the Woods

Episode 3: The Secret Song

Episode 4: A Very Odd Occurrence of Birds

Episode 5: The Monster of the Green Lake

Episode 6: A Hidden World

Episode 7: A Conclusion in the Caves

About the Author

Joe Meno is a fiction writer and journalist who lives in Chicago. Winner of the Nelson Algren Literary Award, a Pushcart Prize, and a finalist for the Story Prize, Meno is the best-selling author of several novels and short story collections including Marvel and a Wonder, The Great Perhaps, The Boy Detective Fails, and Hairstyles of the Damned. He is a professor in the English and Creative Writing Department at Columbia College Chicago. Book of Extraordinary Tragedies is his latest work.

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Recommended Reading is the weekly fiction magazine from Electric Literature, publishing here every Wednesday morning. In addition to featuring our own recommendations of original, previously unpublished fiction, we invite established authors, indie presses, and literary magazines to recommend great work from their pages, past and present. Sign up for our Recommended Reading newsletter to get every issue straight to your inbox, or join our membership program for access to year-round submissions. EL’s literary magazines are supported in part by the Amazon Literary Partnership Literary Magazine Fund and the Community of Literary Magazines & Presses, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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