25 Best Short Story Collections of 2014 in Electric Literature

Ross pawed at his face and sobbed, “My girls,” for his wife, Bren, and their three daughters, who were sure to have called the police by now, who’d no doubt sent search parties, search boats, search planes. Which made it even more frustrating that the men were still lost, drifting, alone. Phil looked at Ross’s sunburned, bald head, handed over his own hat, and said gently, “Hey, boss, you’re blistering.” -- From Man V. Nature by Diane Cook in Electric Literature, a collection included in Electric Lit's "25 Best Short Story Collections of 2014"