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Electric Literature Aloud! is a compendium of 10 short stories from the anthology series. The editors select stories with a strong voice that capture readers and listeners and lead them somewhere exciting, unexpected, and meaningful.

From Drugstore Cowboy to Elephant, Milk and Good Will Hunting, Gus Van Sant's films have captured the imagination of more than one generation. Acclaimed as both an independent and mainstream filmmaker, he is also an artist, photographer and writer.

Follow our story if you dare, but be warned...neither of our lives have been fairy tale perfect, leaving us with shattered souls. This is our chaotic beginning.... Take a deep breath. You can and will get through this. Rock bottom is where I find myself, yet again. I remember all the times I've stood alone, begging for help, praying for an answer, no longer knowing who I'd become and barely being able to breathe.

Nick managed not to die, saved the day, and settled in for a comfortable career at Devil Co. That means it’s the perfect time for God to have other plans for him–and guess who shows up to try and poach Nick for their organization? Why have one complicated job working for a personified deity, when you can have two?

Una escritora peruana en Buenos Aires rememora la historia de un accidente llamado familia. Accidente que se prolonga durante años como una herida mal cicatrizada, signo de interrogación que hurga, interpela y desfonda. Compuesta de recuerdos finamente hilados al tiempo de la intimidad, la novela se revela como un ajuste de cuentas entre una mujer y sus padres: narrativa filial con la que la escritura aspira a disipar olvidos, esparcir cenizas y replantear distancias.

Entrepreneurs can find endless texts promising perfect, tactical advice on how to get from zero to any other number, but rarely do we find one written through the vulnerability of the quest, full of ancedotes and categorization-free, with the purpose of feeling feelings.

Erin is the daughter of a god. For any other, orphaned as a small child, this would be welcome news. For Erin, nothing could be worse. Upon finding an ancient spell book, Erin Doherty is sent spiraling into a realm that she never knew existed - a place where her father, the male who abandoned her, lives like a king, lording over all. And her brother, Soren Vidar, fights to free the worlds from his oppression. Escorted by her brother’s oldest friend, Jakob Väsen, Erin is welcomed into the home of the fiercest warriors in Soren’s rebellion.

At 28, Joan Heiman said “I do” to a man her mother called “every Jewish mother’s dread.” Her new husband, Philip, was unconventional to the nth degree, a poet and astrologer. For the next 37 years, they traveled together from dream to dream, country to country, and finally to Philip’s death. In this telling of their unorthodox history, their heartbreaking journey toward his death, and the soul-shattering grief following his passing, Heiman writes with both pathos and humor about the courage needed to fully embrace love, death, and renewal.

When Emelie Andersdotter learns the outcome of a decades-long war hinges on her arranged marriage to an infamous royal known for his dark powers and reputation, she sees no choice but to accept her fate. Resigned to her unavoidable destiny, she travels to her parents’ ancestral home under the protection of a trusted family friend, where she prepares to navigate a world ruled by magic, mystery, and intrigue.