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
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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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"A Hairy Style" and "Stem of Thorns," flash fiction by Maya Miller
Apr 15 - Maya Miller
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A Visit to Our Meanest Relative Can Only End in Tears
“Nuts” by Katie Schorr, recommended by Halimah Marcus for Electric Literature
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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
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A Goat Farmer Is Only as Vulnerable as Her Goats
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My Skeleton Thinks It’s Better Off Alone
“Debone,” flash fiction by Caitlin Campbell
Apr 1 - Caitlin Campbell
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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
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