American Abyss is a serialized oral-history fiction set in the fictional Palmyra Exclusion Zone, delivered as found documents such as public-health notices, audio transcripts and sales pamphlets. Each issue adds a fragment of a mystery involving a contagious sleep disorder, a corporation's hidden role and unexplained organisms.
Website: https://www.americanabyss.org/
An independent archive of literary criticism offering close readings of recent novels, with attention to form, narrative structure and the devices authors rely on. Issues include single-book reviews and a critical overview of the Booker shortlist.
Weekly essays by author A.R. Moxon mixing political commentary with literary and pop-culture analysis, including a long-running serialized humorous reading of the TV show Lost. Issues take a pointed progressive stance on US politics, media ownership and culture.
Cristian Mihai publishes short-form fiction in serial installments, each issue opening a new story with a distinct period and setting, such as a post-apocalyptic radio scene, a 1986 low-budget film set, and a rural wedding. Readers get dense, sensory, carefully crafted prose with strong concrete detail and a literary voice.
Cetera Magazine publishes short literary fiction, with each issue offering a self-contained story of unusual emotional and psychological depth. Readers get immersive, carefully crafted narratives about grief, illness, childhood friendship and memory.
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