Her Best Friend Was Her Secret Stalker, and the Languages Lost to Climate Change

Curated reads.

Favorite Essays I Read in the Past Two Weeks:

• My father stays in Lebanon

• Her best friend was her secret stalker

• My friend chooses how and when to die (this is a haunting essay)

• Ghosts (essay written partly with AI)

• This is the last dog we’ll ever own

• Kimichi has always been a part of my English

• A note from the Fireline

Favorite Short Stories I Read in the Past Two Weeks:

• The sisters

• Here we are

• Hold on

• Pretend

• I am three things a woman should never be

• If you were dead, you’d be obsessed with death too

Favorite Flash Stories I Read in the Past Two Weeks:

• Wicked Americana

• strangers breathe air into you

• Particulate Matter

• How I Liked the Avocados

• The List

Favorite Sentence I Read in the Past Two Weeks:

“A good writer loves writing and tolerates publishing.” C. Hope Clark, Funds for Writers

Favorite Paragraph I Read in the Past Two Weeks:

“If your priority is to be published, if you think more about your name, your cover, your future fame, you just might not be a true-blue writer. These days anyone can publish. Not all of those can write.” C. Hope Clark, Funds for Writers

Favorite Writing Advice I Read in the Past Two Weeks:

• All of my accepted stories started with rejections

Etcetera

• Moral blackmail and the forgiveness demand (the best insightful opinion piece I read this week)

• Letter from an editor who is going through some stuff

• 7 books to read when the world is on fire

• Ten outstanding short stories to read in 2025

• Yes, we need to call out the climate criminals right now

• 48 books by women of color to read in 2025

• The languages lost to climate change

• Inside the fight to save the world’s most endangered wolf

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