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1 month ago | electricliterature.com | Wynter K. Miller |Charlotte McConaghy

Introduction by Caroline Bleeke Share article Issue No 667 Written by Charlotte McConaghy Recommended by Caroline Bleeke The opening pages of Charlotte McConaghy’s Wild Dark Shore have a fairytale quality to them. We meet the Salt family, a father and his three children, who live in a lighthouse and serve as caretakers of a vault containing copies of all the world’s seeds. They are the only inhabitants of a remote, windswept island—that is, until a mysterious woman washes up onshore, fighting...

Mar 14, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Wynter K. Miller |Mark Bessen

Standing in line at the H-E-B checkout, I’m mindlessly deleting emails when a photo of a naked, pornographically hot beefcake stretched out on a massage table illuminates my screen. I recoil and quickly pull the front of my jacket around the phone, worried I’ll scandalize a wayward shopper, or worse, traumatize some passing youth. I tap the bookmark button, then quickly swipe to another screen and wait for my turn to clumsily scan my groceries.

Mar 10, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Wynter K. Miller |Gina Chung

My Worst Experiences Haunt Me From the Memory Cloud Share article After Leo left, I had trouble keeping track of myself. I had just moved into a new apartment, and I felt like I was existing in an endless twilight. I would drift off for a nap in the living room, only to find myself standing in the kitchen, washing a dish I didn’t remember using.

Mar 6, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Wynter K. Miller |Daniel Khalastchi

Darling, Please Flatten Me With the Volvo A Contagious Age DEAR ________ : I WANT TO BE A BETTER FRIEND, I’M SORRYYou put your hand on my neck andwhisper that if you were here you wouldsew me a telephone. But youare here, I say, and then you walkto the door.

Mar 4, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Wynter K. Miller |J G Lynas

“King of All Hogs” by J G Lynas begins innocuously enough. Two lovers, happy and carefree, out on the open road. Sex in roadside bathrooms. Sustenance via burgers and instant noodles. Two days with only the vaguest sense of geography. And then they reach Guthrie Farm. Fear is the emotion most directly evoked by horror; its trappings and accouterments are designed to signal to the reader (or viewer, in the case of films) this is scary, feel afraid.