“Wòch nan dlo pa konnen doulè wòch nan solèy.” The rock in the water cannot know the pain of the rock in…
Grandma. I always just referred to her as that without any qualifiers. I said Grandma Sarah whenever I referenced my paternal grandmother.…
2011. The first boy I ever loved had dimples in both cheeks, a passion for basketball, and a smile that could melt…
Sean is not you. Sean doesn’t drag me from bed at three in the morning, mouth pasty, eyes red, to marvel from…
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…
Jocelyn found it hard to focus on the date, although it had been the only thing occupying her mind until she got…
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…
I remember the time you left your phone at home in our first apartment. It was an old loft close to campus.…
We’re alone, Patrick and I, in a three-story house an hour outside of Naples, Italy. In Tufo, Italy. It took us one…
When Lenaya is twenty-seven she begins to see pieces of her mama everywhere. In the red lip color worn by a stranger…