When she hears his car door shut close behind him, Queen has just finished her to-do list. She writes one every day,…
We arrived with our gods, walked them into the soil and braided totems into our hair. Distance and time made memory a…
“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…
Sometimes she thought it must be loneliness that made her see things. She could see the dark lord’s face peering down from…
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…
SOUP: It is barely dawn, and the village of Layou is swallowed up in sleep and sea breeze. Tessa lays on her…
“Let me know when it starts to burn,” Aunt Mimi would say, pressing down on the silver release of the styling chair,…
“Mannn, the things I could say about my boy, Romeo.” Chuckles rippled through the great hall; some tinged with nerves, others with…
Tierra sits, her hands folded demurely in her lap, as she waits for her father’s Cadillac to turn the corner. Yellow curtains…
“Go back to Jamaica? You must be crazy! What would I do out there except pick-up bottles off de street and beg…