When she hears his car door shut close behind him, Queen has just finished her to-do list. She writes one every day,…
When she hears his car door shut close behind him, Queen has just finished her to-do list. She writes one every day,…
It’s here – midnight & indigo issue no.5! In this collection, we meet characters across continents in various stages of becoming.…
Jesse arrives home an hour late. The humidity grips him as he climbs the four floors to his apartment. He remembers when…
The tap is leaking. I know this is not the first words I should say to you. ‘The tap is leaking’ is…
“If y’all weren’t so difficult, maybe it’ll be easier to get a man.” “Y‘all? Difficult?” I repeat the triggering words as if…
The day Chiamaka disappeared, her father left the house in precisely three pieces. The first piece left at sunset, when the world,…
No roads led here, this place like a scar of an old wound. No signs marked its location, no post hung with…
1. The day my sister disappeared, the uncomfortable red hue of the evening sky and the vibrancy of the grass complemented each…
When Helen lands in her birth country, nobody is there to greet her. The deathly heat from the Caribbean sun can’t penetrate…
“Good lord, girl. You swelling!” The girl looked down at her belly, then beyond it down to her shoes, at this she…
Jocelyn found it hard to focus on the date, although it had been the only thing occupying her mind until she got…
Sydnee glanced at her phone and saw a text from her mother, Marilyn. Sometimes she wished she had never taught her mother…
“Again! And sit up straight! You’re slouching.” Naledi repositioned herself on the stool in front of the piano. Her legs, dangling, were…
Shattering glass echoes in my ears, snapping my head up from my phone. Right across the street, the front window of Diaz’s…
Mama always said the Devil is a lie. I remember thinking that before it happened. But Mama was wrong. The Devil isn’t…