It was the hottest day of the year when all hell broke loose. Gina woke up already wanting to do everything else but go to work. She laid in bed lazily starting at her ceiling. That is when she noticed it. Her ceiling fan was not rotating. She sat up in bed as if someone … Read more
It was the hottest day of the summer, and the weather app on my phone gave me no comfort. The forecast said it would feel like 110 degrees. I didn’t know whether to laugh at the absurdity of it—because, of course, it’s summer, and heatwaves are practically a given—or to groan in dread. Of all … Read more
Community On a November morning in 1998, a restaurant worker named Danisha Farrell stepped out of the alleyway door of Paula’s Café, dragging an overstuffed trash bag. She pushed up the dumpster lid and froze. Nestled among the coffee grounds and table scraps lay something impossibly small; wrinkled, naked, and bloody. Her breath caught. The … Read more
It’s hard to say when it’s a heat wave in Mississippi. That’s because most of the time, it’s even too hot for the Devil himself,” as my mother was fond of saying. I’ll tell you something though it was the hottest and longest summer in the history of the state of Mississippi beginning in the … Read more
This story contains sensitive content (Note: This story contains reference to racial stereotypes.) “Oh, darling, it would be a true shame if we were to miss the party tonight. And all that rot. I suspect that if Dr. Franklin should forget his famous tapestries the whole world would be up in arms, wouldn’t it?” “I … Read more