When she hears his car door shut close behind him, Queen has just finished her to-do list. She writes one every day,…
“Akinyi, you are such a good girl! Eh! Did you make these mandazi’s yourself?” Akinyi watched as Aunty Ruth grabbed four mandazi’s…
The summer Aneka’s leg is broken, her big sister Rima has a sleepover with all of her lacrosse friends. Aneka helps her…
Tamara turned her car into the horseshoe driveway in front of her younger sister Cameron’s college dorm, just managing to wedge her…
Tisha Kroemer had never felt real fear until that moment. The moment she watched her husband fall off the roof. It was…
On the first night the stars fell, the whole suburb rushed out of their beds and looked out their windows to see…
Luz had faked a pregnancy in order to get the attention of her ex-boyfriend Johnny Rivera and kept it going for six…
I stood at that door knowing the second I knocked on it I’d be a murderer. I had just limped two miles…
Adesanya’s sunken eyes show shadows and fire. The wet earth opens and moves under foot. Behind the log cabin, beyond the stone…
When Lenaya is twenty-seven she begins to see pieces of her mama everywhere. In the red lip color worn by a stranger…
The parents had been seduced by the impalpable sanctuary of a promise. They had been lured by a cool and crisp country…
I email him and tell him that I want to see him. I send it via email because I deleted his number…
“Curse this damned place. I don’t want anything to do with here.” Holson, my best childhood friend, slammed the door and headed…
The last time I tried to kill him, I failed miserably. No blood, no 911 calls, hell – he didn’t even know…
About time, Rose grumbled under her breath as she snatched up her two half-filled garbage bags from the ground and made her…
At bedtime, the little girl I babysat grabbed my shirt and whispered, “Don’t go there.” “Go where?” I picked her up and…