In For a Pound
Chiara Wilde knew she had made a mistake the moment the words had left her mouth. “I need time to myself to think about my future,” she said. She had said those words over a…
Personal Logs
Personal Log—Star Date 2025.1201 Most folks who know me endure my many ‘Trek and ‘Wars references. And yes, I often must explain the reference with a bit of consternation. I believe that they find that…
Black Man Sailing Q & A
Why are you sailing? is a question I get asked with an emphasis on the you as though mostly as a question within a question. Me, particularly me and sailing combined in a question could…
They All Belong To Him
One The summer the girl with the pigtails went missing, Manny was just a little boy running barefoot through Big Momma’s bayou—half-wild, sunstruck, and blissfully unaware that his life was about to split open like…
Familiar
There is a point past weeping, Dr. Christensen thought to himself, when the pain numbs. He peered at his face in the back of a spoon. The distorted image magnified the broken capillaries under…