“I miss you.” Sarah sat on the stone bench and gazed at the rolling landscape, filled with rows of grey headstones marking the graves of those who now slumbered. The grass, a new-sprung green, blanketed the ground around each headstone… Read More ›
short story
Richard Wright’s The Man Who Was Almost a Man and the Inevitable Failings of Capitalism (Just in Time For the Election)
American author, Richard Wright, was born in Natchez, Mississippi, forty-five years after the emancipation of slaves. Though slavery was technically no longer practiced, codes and laws were still set in place, limiting African-Americans’ rights and freedoms. It was in this… Read More ›
What You Pawn I Will Redeem
What You Pawn I Will Redeem, is a beautiful short story about a homeless Native American, Jackson Jackson, who discovers his grandmother’s regalia in a mysterious pawn shop. He is given twenty four hours to come up with the money… Read More ›
The Field at Dusk
She finds herself standing in the middle of a field that opens up to a dusk emblazoned sky. It could have been any field in any town. People are milling about, some have camps set up around small fires. Various… Read More ›
Morning Pages 