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2 months ago | 
electricliterature.com | Preety Sidhu |Rachel Mans McKenny
Love in the Time of Gym Class When we paired up, we always paired up together. History projects, and math exams, and charades by the fence after the bell rang. We weren’t the only girls in our friend group. It was like do and re. There were other notes, sure, but you couldn’t forget the first two. She held my feet, her hands on top of my dirty Keds. Kneeling in front of me while I faced the ceiling, my elbows out like chicken wings and fingers cupping my ponytail.
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2 months ago | 
electricliterature.com | Preety Sidhu |Mandy Shunnarah
Skip to content We Will Never Stop Blooming in Our Home Soil My heat goes out due to the cemetery of birds in my chimney: feathers & bones & broken eggshells. There was not one set of hollow bird bones but manywhere they nestled in the warmth of one another’s bodies.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
electricliterature.com | Preety Sidhu |Osamu Dazai
Take a break from the news We publish your favorite authors—even the ones you haven't read yet. Get new fiction, essays, and poetry delivered to your inbox. YOUR INBOX IS LITEnjoy strange, diverting work from The Commuter on Mondays, absorbing fiction from Recommended Reading on Wednesdays, and a roundup of our best work of the week on Fridays. Personalize your subscription preferences here.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
electricliterature.com | Preety Sidhu |Paul Theroux
Nearly all of Paul Theroux’s fiction is about a person—usually male, often a writer—trying to solve a problem. In several of the stories from The Vanishing Point, his new collection, that problem doesn’t have a solution. The elderly narrator of “First Love” finds himself in the awkward position of being an unwanted houseguest. Buried resentment colours every conversation with his son, just as impatience tinged with envy seeps through his daughter-in-law’s abrupt dismissals.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
electricliterature.com | Preety Sidhu |Ramona Ausubel
Every once in a while, an inbox contains a little ray of light. Here was the request: If we send you a scientific article about an animal, will you write a piece of fiction about that beast, reflecting its situation in the wild? … Yes, please! I wrote back, which is how I came to spend a couple of weeks hanging out in my head, and on the page, with the Florida panther. “Home Range” is included in Creature Needs, a new anthology from the University of Minnesota Press.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
electricliterature.com | T.S. Eliot |Preety Sidhu |Erin Martin
If Sylvia Plath Wrote “Wild Geese” Electric Literature Urgently Needs Your HelpFor the 15,000 people who visit our site every day, reading Electric Literature costs nothing. And yet Electric Lit is not free. We need to raise $25,000 by December 31, 2024 to keep Electric Literature going into next year. If the continued existence of Electric Literature means something to you, please make a contribution today.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
electricliterature.com | Preety Sidhu
Introduction by Michael Reynolds Share article Issue No 657 Written by Hervé Le Corre Recommended by Michael Reynolds In Dogs and Wolves, Hervé Le Corre, a master of French crime fiction, draws readers into an atmospheric thriller set in contemporary France. Here and in all his books—After the War, which Europa Editions published in 2019, and In the Shadow of the Fire, published in 2021—Le Corre gleefully descends into the dark recesses of moral ambiguity. Good guys and honorable gals are...
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
electricliterature.com | Preety Sidhu |Brittani Sonnenberg
Trying and Failing to Locate My Maternal Instinct Electric Literature Urgently Needs Your HelpFor the 15,000 people who visit our site every day, reading Electric Literature costs nothing. And yet Electric Lit is not free. We need to raise $25,000 by December 31, 2024 to keep Electric Literature going into next year. If the continued existence of Electric Literature means something to you, please make a contribution today. Click to enlarge and scrollClick to enlarge and scroll
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
electricliterature.com | Preety Sidhu |Julia Kornberg
My 14th Summer Was Revolutionary in All the Wrong Ways Share article Electric Literature Urgently Needs Your HelpFor the 15,000 people who visit our site every day, reading Electric Literature costs nothing. And yet Electric Lit is not free. We need to raise $25,000 by December 31, 2024 to keep Electric Literature going into next year.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
electricliterature.com | Preety Sidhu |Juhea Kim
Introduction by Rachel Lyon Share article Issue No 654 Written by Juhea Kim Recommended by Rachel Lyon Think of it as the opening of Act I. The house lights dim. The heavy velvet curtains open on a listless Sunday morning in 1992, shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union, in the shabby little apartment seven-year-old Natasha Leonova shares with her seamstress mother in Saint Petersburg. Her mother is sewing, let’s say. The television is on but unattended. Natasha is bored. Her main...
