Clutching three rotten apples in a single hand, she stood at the screen door and waited for the shifting dark clouds to…
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…
“Akinyi, you are such a good girl! Eh! Did you make these mandazi’s yourself?” Akinyi watched as Aunty Ruth grabbed four mandazi’s…
Tamara turned her car into the horseshoe driveway in front of her younger sister Cameron’s college dorm, just managing to wedge her…
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…