At first, there was only the Sun. Shining brightly, he illuminated powerfully in space. Sun knew he was a burning ball of…
“Curse this damned place. I don’t want anything to do with here.” Holson, my best childhood friend, slammed the door and headed…
No roads led here, this place like a scar of an old wound. No signs marked its location, no post hung with…
Mama always said the Devil is a lie. I remember thinking that before it happened. But Mama was wrong. The Devil isn’t…
“3 A.M./Stare at the ceilin’, murder the feelin’/Spider crawl in the corner—Brown Recluse./So appropriate” I rap, far too passionately. Honestly, there is…
I text Alicia that I’m outside and when she responds, I’m already ringing the doorbell. the text was just a courtesy. whether…
On a nimbus of decay, it emerged from the dark recesses of her closet and crept spiderlike toward her threadbare rug. Humid…
It was a bitterly cold November evening, fifteen minutes or so before closing when the young man first walked into Tia Adelina’s…
They were floating, flying in tandem, punctuated by the last of the year’s sunlight, perfectly together. Nothing could separate them. The voices…
Cast aside the bloody hands of the self-righteous for they brittle and collapse amongst the bones of saints. The tree leaves…
The first time she noticed, it was purely accidental. A quick glance while reaching for a towel on the nearby rack. The…
The winds bouncing off the gulf swaddle Fleur’s bare head as she stands at its fringes, and almost with the same delicacy…
The fireflies hovered in front of me, their green bodies emitting a radio buzz with their wings. Crickets hummed and perched themselves…
When Sunduq was four she got stuck in the hope chest in her grandmother’s bedroom. Her family looked for her for hours,…
It was called “Tika Zika”. They gave us instructions to lock ourselves away from each other. No neighbors, friends, nothing–no matter what.…