My Wife Pays Me and I Pay the Nanny
“Feeders” from HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD by Oliver Munday, recommended by Andrew Ridker
Feb 16 - Oliver Munday
RR Issue No. 717
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Writing in Notebooks Is My New Personality
“Notebooks” by Imogen Clarke, recommended by Willem Marx for Electric Literature
Feb 9 - Imogen Clarke
RR Issue No. 716
The Childhood Friend I Abandoned Is Trying to Save Me
“That Unfamiliar Night” from WITH THE HEART OF A GHOST by Lim Sunwoo, translated and recommended by Chi-Young Kim
Feb 2 - Lim Sunwoo
RR Issue No. 715
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The Childhood Friend I Abandoned Is Trying to Save Me
Feb 2 - Lim Sunwoo
Writing in Notebooks Is My New Personality
Feb 9 - Imogen Clarke
A Friendship Spanning Bombay Prep Schools and Connecticut Strip Malls
Jan 26 - Reena Shah
The Great Silence
Oct 12 - Ted Chiang
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My Heart Is a Dark Gash Oozing With Desire
“Wound” by Sammy Stevens, recommended by Wynter K Miller for Electric Literature
Nov 24 - Sammy Stevens
RR Issue No. 705
In My Homeland Memories Are Forbidden
“Where Memory Meets the Sea” by Laia Asieo Odo, recommended by Malka Older, Annalee Newitz, and Karen Lord
Nov 17 - Laia Asieo Odo
RR Issue No. 704
Ecstasy Is Temporary but Being Fabulous Is Forever
An excerpt from TERRY DACTYL by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, recommended by Lisa Ko
Nov 10 - Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
RR Issue No. 703
His Sex Addiction Is Proof of Free Will
“Love of Fate” by Rafael Frumkin, recommended by Halimah Marcus for Electric Literature
Nov 3 - Rafael Frumkin
RR Issue No. 702
The Version of the Story the Adults Won’t Tell Her
“The Request” from THE UNREPENTANT by Sharmini Aphrodite, recommended by Preeta Samarasan
Oct 27 - Sharmini Aphrodite
RR Issue No. 701
My Roadmap to Fatherhood Is an Impenetrable Maze
An excerpt from ONLY SON by Kevin Moffett, recommended by Jonathan Lethem
Oct 20 - Kevin Moffett
RR Issue No. 700
Sleep Is a Runaway Train and I’m Tied to the Tracks
“My Sleep” from HURRICANE ENVY by Sara Jaffe, recommended by Leni Zumas
Oct 13 - Sara Jaffe
RR Issue No. 699
Her Top Priority Is to Destroy the Hot Dog Guy
“The Eloquence of Hot Dogs” from SEX OF THE MIDWEST by Robyn Ryle, recommended by Kiese Laymon
Oct 6 - Robyn Ryle
RR Issue No. 698
Gentleness Is Outdated in This Alien World
An excerpt from THE HIGH HEAVEN by Joshua Wheeler, recommended by Claire Vaye Watkins
Sep 29 - Joshua Wheeler
RR Issue No. 697
