ISSUE No. 522
Adopt a Cat for the Global Collapse
"It Is What It Is" by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, recommended by Electric Literature
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The First Flight Out of the Cult of Celebrity
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How To Bring a Living Being Into a Dead House
"The Cat" by Tove Ditlevsen, translated and recommended by Michael Favala Goldman
May 4 - Tove Ditlevsen
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The Chickens Will Inherit the Earth
"Ark" by Zoë Ballering, recommended by Electric Literature
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Is My Husband Having an Affair With Me?
"The Complex," flash fiction by Scott Limbrick
May 23 - Scott Limbrick
Where’s Waldo of Eternal Damnation
"The Butt Song from Hell," musings on Bosch by Marci Rae Johnson
May 16 - Marci Rae Johnson
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People Love a Story Where Someone Almost Dies
"Party Stories," flash fiction by Yasmina Din Madden
May 9 - Yasmina Din Madden
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My Gender Won’t Fit in the Family Car
"KB’s Origin Story" and "Yebba’s Heartbreak," two poems by KB
May 2 - KB
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