Electric Literature's Recommended Reading

By Ben Marcus   I DON’T THINK MY MOTHER will die today. It’s late at night already. She’d have to die in the next forty-five minutes, which doesn’t seem likely. I…
LENGTH: 26 minutes (6717 words)

My Son Went to Heaven, and All I Got Was a No. 1 Best Seller

At 3 years 10 months, Colton Burpo was a sunny child, a preacher’s son certain of his faith and his eternal fate. Then his appendix burst, and as doctors failed to figure out what was wrong with him,…
PUBLISHED: April 27, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (904 words)
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