Cost of Living Shortlist

by Rebecca Paredes
Receipts with purple sparkles on either side

Editor’s Note

It’s expensive to live, and even more expensive to fall behind. Our Cost of Living challenge invited flash prose and poetry about debt and making ends meet. Our shortlist recognizes the writers whose work we particularly loved, and we’re pleased to share their titles. Check back soon for our list of finalists!

“A, Apple, tuffaHah” by Maryah Converse

“American Tantalus” by Bobby Sorensen

“Foreclosure” by Robert John Miller

“Test Suite: Quality” by Maximilian Peerless

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Rebecca Paredes

Rebecca Paredes is the Editor-in-Chief of Glossy Planet. She is a writer from Lake Elsinore, California, where the IHOP is located next to the graveyard, and an alumna of PEN America’s Emerging Voices Workshop LA. Her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in Epiphany Magazine, Barren Magazine, Hunger Mountain Review, and other publications. She is currently working on a novel inspired by her hometown.

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