A Food Connection: Interview with Wura Natasha-Ogunji by Antonio C. La Pastina

Small university towns are challenging places for cosmopolitan-minded individuals. When my partner and I moved…

future tense (minor tribe: 2012)

like the family I need documents to stay here lose them and I lose my…

Time Served

On Mondays through Fridays and the occasional Saturday, we are registered nurses, yoga instructors, hairstylists…

Tropicale

An excerpt from the novel, IT’S NOT LOVE, IT’S JUST PARIS Maribel was often depressed…

Bandolera

She woke up to him texting the American. Frustrated. Anxious. He texted two more times and still no reply, begging in a way that he never would with her.

Time Capsule

We buried the capsule in the backyard, a few inches under the ground. We were…

Earth-Language

Somehow, a wild animal–a tacuache or bobcat, some thrashing taloned thing–had gotten trapped in Maria…

Bouquet 1-1- by Fugufish
Eight Women And A Dozen Roses

Excerpt from All Decent Animals (FSG) When Ata first came to her office Angelica declared…

Skin

Corona, Queens August 1983 It had poured rain and thundered all day just like a…

Black Men in Search of the Rivers

I am weary from the road. Chest heavy, I search for  cool water,  ripe oranges,…