ISSUE No. 549
Best Friends Are Better Kept Long Distance
"Quantum Voicemail" by Kristen Iskandrian, recommended by Electric Literature
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A Bottle Girl More Flush Than Your Hedge Fund
"Bottle Girl" from Stories No One Hopes Are About Them by AJ Bermudez, recommended by Anthony Marra
Nov 16 - AJ Bermudez
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My Menial Job at the Anti-Fuck Factory
"The Raised Blade," an excerpt from Toad by Katherine Dunn, recommended by Naomi Huffman
Nov 9 - Katherine Dunn
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A Marriage as Bleak as a Beach Town in Winter
"The Cape" from The Islands by Dionne Irving, recommended by CJ Hauser
Nov 2 - Dionne Irving
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My Menstrual Cup Will Outlast Us All
Two poems by Anna Lena Phillips Bell
Nov 21 - Anna Lena Phillips Bell
You Can’t Tetris Your Way Out of Trauma
Two poems by Laura Villareal
Nov 14 - Laura Villareal
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Pharrell Would Be Happier with a Securely Bolted Roof
"The Roof Is Not on Fire," flash fiction by Thomas Rowley
Nov 7 - Thomas Rowley
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A Love That Goes Bone Deep
"The Bone Friend," flash fiction by Zebbie Watson
Oct 31 - Zebbie Watson
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Music That Transcends Everything But His Circumstance
"Prodigal Son" from A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness by Jai Chakrabarti, recommended by Electric Literature
Oct 26 - Jai Chakrabarti
RR Issue No. 545
There’s No Praying in the House of Horrors
Two spooky poems by Domenica Martinello
Oct 24 - Domenica Martinello
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My Mother Rearranges Strangers’ Lives in the Dark
"None of That" from Seven Empty Houses by Samanta Schweblin, recommended by Lynn Steger Strong
Oct 19 - Samanta Schweblin
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I’d Like to Report Myself Not Missing
Excerpts from "After the Rapture," a novella by Nancy Stohlman
Oct 17 - Nancy Stohlman
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My Mom Doesn’t Recognize Me But Neither Do I
"Ghosting" from Entry Level by Wendy Wimmer, recommended by Kristen Arnett
Oct 12 - Wendy Wimmer
RR Issue No. 543
My Family History Isn’t the Ming Dynasty
"Family Time," a graphic narrative by Kat Y Tang
Oct 10 - Kat Y Tang
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