This story contains sensitive content CW: Explicit language and sexual content. How can a man have both eyes wide open and can’t see a damn thing? I’m still trying to figure that out. My world was fantastic up to that point. I got a fine black wife that turns heads in any room she … Read more
Thunder rolled across Houston’s gray sky. In a small room at an old age home, an elderly woman stared out the window, her brown, droopy eyes filled with warmth. Her fingers were interlaced, lips curled into a smile as she whispered a name only she remembered. — 1865 The sun scorched the Hurst plantation. Weeds … Read more
This story contains sensitive content Far as I can feel, both palms open wide in search, searching for the silence. In search of a place I have never been, with spoken tongues lavish with flavors I have rarely tasted, only ever in the most sacred times of my life. That golden dialect in which the … Read more
Title: Heat Lightning The oppressive Atlanta heat had a personal vendetta against Josie Davenport. At fifty-two, she was no stranger to a fight—she’d gone toe-to-toe with teenage rebellion and won, buried her parents with a grace she hadn’t known she possessed, and walked away from a man who treated fidelity like a suggestion. But this … Read more
This story contains sensitive content This story uses a derogatory word to describe Black people. The Cost of Freedom Elijah’s rough homespun cotton shirt clung to his back, glued there by the sweat that seemed to be pouring out of every pore of his body. The heat had been increasing every day for the … Read more