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A Goat Farmer Is Only as Vulnerable as Her Goats
An excerpt from SURRENDER by Jennifer Acker, recommended by Ben Shattuck
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I Wish It Wasn’t My Job to Ask You About Jelly
An excerpt from MOUNT VERITY by Therese Bohman, translated and recommended by Marlaine Delargy
Mar 30 - Therese Bohman
RR Issue No. 723
This Famous Writer Is Ruining Her Writing
“Fictions” by Anna Hogeland, recommended by Preety Sidhu for Electric Literature
Mar 23 - Anna Hogeland
RR Issue No. 722
Her Drama Is Tolerable When It’s Performed Onstage
An excerpt from AN AWFULLY BIG ADVENTURE by Beryl Bainbridge, recommended by Lucy Scholes
Mar 16 - Beryl Bainbridge
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Nothing Says Closure Like Being Robbed
“The Person Who Lives Here Doesn’t Live Here Anymore,” flash fiction by Ben Daggers
Apr 8 - Ben Daggers
My Skeleton Thinks It’s Better Off Alone
“Debone,” flash fiction by Caitlin Campbell
Apr 1 - Caitlin Campbell
Prose
I May Be a Snake But I’ll Never Become Your Purse
Three anagram poems by Jia-Rui Cook
Mar 25 - Jia-Rui Cook
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Ask Your Doctor If Drinking Me Is Right for You
“Spinal Tap,” flash fiction by Angela Liu
Mar 18 - Angela Liu
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“what i can teach you,” a poem by Eshani Surya
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“Paul's Tomb,” flash fiction by Will VanDenBerg
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