ISSUE No. 390
Married with Kids: One Star, Difficult to Assemble
"Patience" a new short story by Courtney Maum, recommended by Electric Literature
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"Hannah-Beast" by Jennifer McMahon is a story about living with the Halloween prank that went too far
Oct 30 - Jennifer McMahon
RR Issue No. 389 
Some Notes To Keep Your Rape Story Relevant
The "sisterhood" editor who wants you to write like Charles Dickens in "Re: Your Rape Story" by Elissa Schappell
Oct 23 - Elissa Schappell
RR Issue No. 388 
My Step-Sister Is a Wolf Named Helen
"Formerly Feral" by Julia Armfield from the new collection 'salt slow' recommended by Lara Williams
Oct 16 - Julia Armfield
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A Ghost and a Skeleton Meet on a Beach
Two flash fictions by Jose Hernandez Diaz
Nov 11 - Jose Hernandez Diaz
Every Generation Battles Its Own Doom
Two poems by Nicole Cooley
Nov 4 - Nicole Cooley
poetry 
Please Bless Us, Colonel Sanders
Two poems about food and family by Stine An
Oct 28 - Stine An
poetry 
Coming Out in the Home of the Brave
"Democracy Was," a story by Patrick Ryan
Oct 21 - Patrick Ryan
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Married with Kids: One Star, Difficult to Assemble
Nov 6 - Courtney Maum
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Oct 16 - Julia Armfield
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Oct 23 - Elissa Schappell
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Sep 11 - Helen Phillips
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If Great Women From History Had Emails
Two poems on the silencing of women by Lindsay Adkins
Oct 14 - Lindsay Adkins
poetry 
A Practical Guide to Becoming a Nun
A new short story by Blair Hurley recommended by Electric Literature
Oct 9 - Blair Hurley
RR Issue No. 386 
Why I Love Earthquake Season
"Earthquake Season," a short story by Kate Reed Petty
Oct 7 - Kate Reed Petty
Fiction 
If the Guilt Doesn’t Get You, the Grudges Will
In the story "Glisk" by Josephine Rowe, brothers reunite after an accident forces them apart
Oct 2 - Josephine Rowe
RR Issue No. 385 
In a World of Truly Large Numbers, We’re Exactly Two People
Two poems by James Kimbrell
Sep 30 - James Kimbrell
poetry 
This Is Your Brain on Clarice Lispector
Rivka Galchen recommends "The Egg and the Chicken" by Clarice Lispector
Sep 25 - Clarice Lispector
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