March 13, 1990: Elba, AL Seven old men formed a straight-back chair semicircle around the wood stove in the store front of Bill’s...

Greg Morris drove into a Lumber and Plumbing Supply Company's parking lot fast and halted abruptly in the nearest assigned loading spot....

“So go to your damn party,” Jill said. Sam gazed at Jill across the bed. Her words weren’t exactly a free pass, but Sam would take them....

Please forget about my name. It’s Constance Bytheway. I always felt like I stole it from an old lady when I was born. Perhaps, in time, I...

Lord Eadgar stepped through the grass with sudden caution, careful not to crush under his gait delicate white and purple lilies, nor bend...

For nine consecutive months, I found myself being followed by the same dream. Every time I closed my eyes I arrived at the same...

I always pride myself as the best waiter in Faaji Restaurant and Lounge. Maybe even in the whole of Ibadan. But all afternoon as I skid...

If someone asks, "Are you with me?" then you say yes, or a-ha; something to show that you are with them, because this is how they know...

Author’s Note: Below is an excerpt from “Rejection Therapy” by Takier George, a hybrid collection of narrative poetry/fiction. Memories...

Content warnings: escape and abduction, swearing, mention of terminal illness The ceiling glowed crimson as I sprinted down the hall. A...

The yoga class ran long. On a bench outside the studio, the Kuykendalls sat waiting with phones in hands and their breath billowing...

Lizzie and I were the only two ‘girls’ on the Snake Mountain Hotshots that year, 1997. Our supervisor Bob would only hire two for a...

For the first few years, when his father and Addie went to the Barracks, his father would stop by the welcome center and ask a volunteer...

The light in the studio (read: closet) was starting to wane as the sun sank behind the apartment building to the west. Kara hopped up and...

On a balcony overlooking the parking lot of the El Capitan Resort Casino, Rodney and Tatiana shared a cigarette while a red glow crept...

Alex Frazier stared in from atop the mound as I settled into my crouch and rolled through the signs a second time. Behind Frazier, the...

Some houses on Harwood Avenue were louder than others. Some houses housed families with twelve to twenty raucous kids who were kicked out...

Shannon lifted her face toward the open sky, waiting impatiently for the passing of a shooting star. John spotted one after another,...

The embers of memory smolder but no longer flare. I hold her in stolen moments of dreams, my mind altered, untethered from the ravages of...

Add sugar to the pan, and just cover with water. Don’t add too much water, like you did in your first year of marriage. You had to stir...