ISSUE No. 747
This Anonymous Caller Is Not a Metaphor for Her Despair
“Going Up” from OUT OF BODY by Chris Vanjonack, recommended by Weston Morrow
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The Barn Manager’s Grief Is Hotter Than Foreplay
An excerpt from THE LONELY GIRL'S VEGETABLE PATCH by Genevieve Plunkett, recommended by Kimberly King Parsons
Sep 7 - Genevieve Plunkett
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His Daughter’s Poetry Is His Midlife Crisis
“Phillip Whitney” by Anna Reeser, recommended by Willem Marx for Electric Literature
Aug 31 - Anna Reeser
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Wealth Can’t Absolve the Families of the Disappeared
“Already Gone” from THOSE WHO VANISH by Patricia Grace King, recommended by Ben Davies Crisp
Aug 24 - Patricia Grace King
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ISSUE No. 441
My Dead Husband Still Wants the Last Word
"The Bone Hermit," flash fiction by Lyndsey Croal
Sep 16 - Lyndsey Croal
When It Gets Hot the Block Gets Loud
Two poems by Birch Wiley
Sep 9 - Birch Wiley
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A Frozen Bird Too Beautiful to Bury
Three prose poems by Mike Bove
Sep 2 - Mike Bove
poetry
Every Parent Needs a Tub of Their Own
“Cabin for Four in High Sierra” flash fiction by Jae Towle Vieira, from THIRTY CABINS
Aug 26 - Jae Towle Vieira
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The Great Silence
Oct 12 - Ted Chiang
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A Love That Will Bury Me Alive
Jan 25 - Patricia Engel
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People Who Live Near Glass Houses Shouldn’t Throw Shade
"Picture This," flash fiction by Whitney Collins
Aug 19 - Whitney Collins
Prose
The Children of This Village Delight in Wildfire and Death
“Father's Feet” from THE CROSSING OF THE BOARS by Zhang Guixing, recommended by Brian Bernards
Aug 17 - Zhang Guixing
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Even Good Boys Get a Little Bloody Sometimes
Two poems by Kate Stoltzfus
Aug 12 - Kate Stoltzfus
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There’s a Better Version of Myself in These Woods
“Darkness Like a Seam” by Rebecca Turkewitz, recommended by Wynter K Miller for Electric Literature
Aug 10 - Rebecca Turkewitz
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My Sex Appeal Can Kill a Man at 10 Paces
"We Should Go Out!" flash fiction by Whitney Lewis
Aug 5 - Whitney Lewis
Prose
A Nigerian Man Wakes Up White and Voyages Into the Heart of Whiteness
An excerpt from WHYTEFACE by A. Igoni Barrett, recommended by Ethan Nosowsky
Aug 3 - A. Igoni Barrett
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