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When a severe drought threatened the settlement town of Grangeville with extinction, two angelic visitors saved the town, creating what is now called Visitation Lake, which sits high on the plateau above the town, to the west. Now, three hundred years later, Grangeville, renamed Angel Falls, faces a more ominous threat. An evil so powerful
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Electric Lit relies on contributions from our readers to help make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. Please support our work by becoming a member today, or making a one-time donation here. . Akwaeke Emezi’s work continues to get wide acclaim for the fresh perspectives, differentiated structures, and succinct, palpable narratives they bring with every
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All the Men I’ve Slept with at Work Raven Leilani Author of Luster Share article Electric Lit relies on contributions from our readers to help make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. Please support our work by becoming a member today, or making a one-time donation here. . Chapter 2, Excerpted from Luster by Raven Leilani
Series editor’s note: In Saddiq Dzukogi’s new poem, the speaker observes as a snake shows up unannounced, unsummoned, and sluggishly inserts its head into a nest, and “as the yard grows quiet, / feasts on newly laid eggs.” It is a powerful image the speaker bestows on us, a quiet taking of the innocent, something
Electric Lit relies on contributions from our readers to help make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. Please support our work by becoming a member today, or making a one-time donation here. . Ingrid Persaud made the grandest of debuts in the literary world by winning the BBC Short Story Award in 2018 with “The
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A Lover Who, at the End of Everything, Told Me I Had No Ass Electric Lit relies on contributions from our readers to help make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. Please support our work by becoming a member today, or making a one-time donation here. . The Meek It’s Election Day. It’s the finest
Electric Lit relies on contributions from our readers to help make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. Please support our work by becoming a member today, or making a one-time donation here. . There’s no question that the pandemic has negatively affected our attention span (not that our society was doing particularly well with that
Electric Lit relies on contributions from our readers to help make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. Please support our work by becoming a member today, or making a one-time donation here. . I’ll never forget riding in my mom’s car as a high school student in the late ‘90s, and hearing a male DJ
Electric Lit relies on contributions from our readers to help make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. Please support our work by becoming a member today, or making a one-time donation here. . I met David Adjmi at a fancy writing residency. The kind of place where you work all day alone and then eat
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Electric Lit relies on contributions from our readers to help make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. Please support our work by becoming a member today, or making a one-time donation here. . Emma Straub is a New York Times bestselling author and owner of the beloved independent bookstore, Books Are Magic in Brooklyn. Her