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“'Pay Me' is classic Zdravka Evtimova. It’s the story of Maria, a woman of insatiable appetite who works odd jobs in her small town. She seems to her boss, a man of great means but little imagination, to have come from nowhere, and slowly, he falls under the spell of this “thin, long thread of a woman” in too-large secondhand clothes. This is not a fairy tale, and yet there’s something both secret-princess and witchlike about Maria. Walt Disney would have no idea what to do with this woman. And that is precisely why I love her." - Kelly Link
About the Zdravka Evtimova was born in Bulgaria where she lives and works as a literary translator. Her short stories have appeared in 31 countries in the world, including USA, UK, Canada, China, Australia, Germany, France, Japan, Italy, etc. The list of her short story collections Bitter Sky, SKREV Press, UK, 2003, Somebody Else MAG Press, USA, 2005, Miss Daniella, SKREV Press, UK 2007, Pale and Other Postmodern Bulgarian Stories, Vox Humana, Canada, 2010, Carts and Other Stories Fomite Press, USA 2012; Time to Mow and Other Stories, All Things That Matter Press, USA, 2012, Impossibly Blue and Other Stories, Skrev Press, UK, 2013, Endless July and Other Stories, Paraxenes Meres, Greece, 2013. Her novel God of Traitors was published by Book for a Buck Publishers, USA 2007. Her novel Sinfonia Bulgarica was published by Fomite Books, USA, 2014; by Salento Books, Italy, 2015; by Art and Literature Press, China, 2015; and by Antolog Books, Macedonia, 2015, and by Draslar Book Partners Books, Serbia, 2016.
About the Guest Kelly Luce grew up in Brookfield, Illinois. After graduating from Northwestern University with a degree in cognitive science, she moved to Japan, where she lived and worked for three years. Her work has been recognized by fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Ucross Foundation, Sozopol Fiction Seminars, Ragdale Foundation, the Kerouac Project, and Jentel Arts, and has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Salon, O, the Oprah Magazine, Electric Literature, Crazyhorse, The Southern Review, and other publications. She received an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at UT Austin in 2015 and lives in Santa Cruz, CA. She is a Contributing Editor for Electric Literature and will be a fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies during the 2016–17 academic year. Her debut novel, Pull Me Under, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
About the Tayen Lane Publishing is proud to present a multifaceted collection of short stories that includes emerging, established, and first-time authors, to esteemed readers everywhere (as every reader should, indeed, be esteemed!).
In this collection you will experience, first hand, how the ‘word travels’ of these authors have beautifully informed their writing and their stories. The seventeen stories take you from a grunge bar in the ’90s, to a land of magical trees, to the middle of the night ocean. And you will find that the protagonists are many — spanning a Bulgarian orchard worker, to a jaded-yet-still-earnest skateboarder, to an octogenarian about to get conned.
About the Electric Literature is an independent publisher amplifying the power of storytelling through digital innovation. Electric Literature’s weekly fiction magazine, Recommended Reading, invites established authors, indie presses, and literary magazines to recommended great fiction. Once a month we feature our own recommendation of original, previously unpublished fiction. Stay connected with us through our eNewsletter, Facebook, and Twitter, and find previous Electric Literature picks in the Recommended Reading archives.
About the Zdravka Evtimova was born in Bulgaria where she lives and works as a literary translator. Her short stories have appeared in 31 countries in the world, including USA, UK, Canada, China, Australia, Germany, France, Japan, Italy, etc. The list of her short story collections Bitter Sky, SKREV Press, UK, 2003, Somebody Else MAG Press, USA, 2005, Miss Daniella, SKREV Press, UK 2007, Pale and Other Postmodern Bulgarian Stories, Vox Humana, Canada, 2010, Carts and Other Stories Fomite Press, USA 2012; Time to Mow and Other Stories, All Things That Matter Press, USA, 2012, Impossibly Blue and Other Stories, Skrev Press, UK, 2013, Endless July and Other Stories, Paraxenes Meres, Greece, 2013. Her novel God of Traitors was published by Book for a Buck Publishers, USA 2007. Her novel Sinfonia Bulgarica was published by Fomite Books, USA, 2014; by Salento Books, Italy, 2015; by Art and Literature Press, China, 2015; and by Antolog Books, Macedonia, 2015, and by Draslar Book Partners Books, Serbia, 2016.
About the Guest Kelly Luce grew up in Brookfield, Illinois. After graduating from Northwestern University with a degree in cognitive science, she moved to Japan, where she lived and worked for three years. Her work has been recognized by fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Ucross Foundation, Sozopol Fiction Seminars, Ragdale Foundation, the Kerouac Project, and Jentel Arts, and has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Salon, O, the Oprah Magazine, Electric Literature, Crazyhorse, The Southern Review, and other publications. She received an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at UT Austin in 2015 and lives in Santa Cruz, CA. She is a Contributing Editor for Electric Literature and will be a fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies during the 2016–17 academic year. Her debut novel, Pull Me Under, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
About the Tayen Lane Publishing is proud to present a multifaceted collection of short stories that includes emerging, established, and first-time authors, to esteemed readers everywhere (as every reader should, indeed, be esteemed!).
In this collection you will experience, first hand, how the ‘word travels’ of these authors have beautifully informed their writing and their stories. The seventeen stories take you from a grunge bar in the ’90s, to a land of magical trees, to the middle of the night ocean. And you will find that the protagonists are many — spanning a Bulgarian orchard worker, to a jaded-yet-still-earnest skateboarder, to an octogenarian about to get conned.
About the Electric Literature is an independent publisher amplifying the power of storytelling through digital innovation. Electric Literature’s weekly fiction magazine, Recommended Reading, invites established authors, indie presses, and literary magazines to recommended great fiction. Once a month we feature our own recommendation of original, previously unpublished fiction. Stay connected with us through our eNewsletter, Facebook, and Twitter, and find previous Electric Literature picks in the Recommended Reading archives.
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Published July 25, 2016
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