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Since I still feel constantly jetlagged, I'm re-reading + sharing some of the best pieces I've read recently.
These arent necessarily recently published & in no order, just pieces that have stuck with me, that I recommend to people, and that I go back to to learn things (thread)
These arent necessarily recently published & in no order, just pieces that have stuck with me, that I recommend to people, and that I go back to to learn things (thread)
"Meals for Mourners", @nashvillereview by @k_mingchang
"We knew the soft-serve would make us shit a watery stew, that we’d go home and crowd our only bathroom, bumping asses while all trying to squat over the same toilet bowl. But we ate it anyway..." https://as.vanderbilt.edu/nashvillereview/archives/15001
"We knew the soft-serve would make us shit a watery stew, that we’d go home and crowd our only bathroom, bumping asses while all trying to squat over the same toilet bowl. But we ate it anyway..." https://as.vanderbilt.edu/nashvillereview/archives/15001
"When the Light Betrays Us Twice" in @CottonXenomorph by @marisabcrane
No excerpt, but the form of this poem is so fucking beautiful you need to go see it https://www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2019/10/20/when-the-light-betrays-us-twice
No excerpt, but the form of this poem is so fucking beautiful you need to go see it https://www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2019/10/20/when-the-light-betrays-us-twice
"Mote" in @JoylandMagazine by @ShandersWrites
She rattled around the house performing small unpacking tasks that stabbed at her temporal lobes but kept the creeping nihilism at bay."
https://joylandmagazine.com/fiction/mote/
She rattled around the house performing small unpacking tasks that stabbed at her temporal lobes but kept the creeping nihilism at bay."
https://joylandmagazine.com/fiction/mote/
"Six Months" in @NERweb by Celeste Mohammed (h/t @FajerAlexKhansa for showing me this one!)
I don't have an excerpt but this is written entirely in dialect, and in second person and is incredible. https://www.nereview.com/2017/04/17/celeste-mohammed/
I don't have an excerpt but this is written entirely in dialect, and in second person and is incredible. https://www.nereview.com/2017/04/17/celeste-mohammed/
"Wishbone" in @ElectricLit by @rachelhengqp
"The wishbone would be left to dry on a paper towel by the sink. Visual examination was permitted, but it was agreed one’s back should be against the kitchen island at all times. There would be no touching." https://electricliterature.com/we-all-want-mas-oven-pan-when-she-dies/
"The wishbone would be left to dry on a paper towel by the sink. Visual examination was permitted, but it was agreed one’s back should be against the kitchen island at all times. There would be no touching." https://electricliterature.com/we-all-want-mas-oven-pan-when-she-dies/
"For a Good Time, Call" in @GuernicaMag by @NatalieLima09
"The party line is our solace. We come here for comfort—we don’t get much of it elsewhere. On the line, we can be anything, or anyone." https://www.guernicamag.com/for-a-good-time-call/
"The party line is our solace. We come here for comfort—we don’t get much of it elsewhere. On the line, we can be anything, or anyone." https://www.guernicamag.com/for-a-good-time-call/
"Brown Girls" in @kenyonreview by @DaphnePalasiA
"If you really want to know, we are the color of 7-Eleven root beer. The color of sand at Rockaway Beach when it blisters the bottoms of our feet. Color of soil..." https://kenyonreview.org/journal/janfeb-2020/selections/daphne-palasi-andreades/
"If you really want to know, we are the color of 7-Eleven root beer. The color of sand at Rockaway Beach when it blisters the bottoms of our feet. Color of soil..." https://kenyonreview.org/journal/janfeb-2020/selections/daphne-palasi-andreades/
"Packed White Spaces" in @BULL_magazine_ by @livesinpages
"They are my capital-W White friends who wear Sperrys and say “sketchy” to describe pre-gentrified neighborhoods, who live in one of the capital-N Nicest apartment units among our peers..."
http://bullmensfiction.com/fiction/packed-white-spaces/
"They are my capital-W White friends who wear Sperrys and say “sketchy” to describe pre-gentrified neighborhoods, who live in one of the capital-N Nicest apartment units among our peers..."
http://bullmensfiction.com/fiction/packed-white-spaces/
OK there's more but I'm tired and need to lie down, so I'll add if I think of others! Happy reading.
