Stories That Wrestle With Black Girls’ Coming of Age

The flash fiction literary community is like an extended family. If you are a writer and reader of flash, it is in all likelihood that your inner circle of literary peeps are other flash fiction folks or, you at least, know of one another. Six degrees is more like one or two in this community. […] The post Stories That Wrestle With Black Girls’ Coming of Age appeared first on Electric Literature. Continue reading at 'Electric Literature'

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Elizabeth Strout has ‘millions of stories to tell’

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The Best Short Stories about Friendship

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At 9, Javier Zamora walked 4,000 miles to the U.S. At 29, he was ready to tell the story

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