Short Fiction and Poetry

We compose songs on a moonlit night, we sing humobauli and play hide and seek, on a moonlit night, go to the jungle [...]

He brought a gun to the house. It is a cold and heavy and alien-looking thing that Daniel waves in his left hand [...]

It began with water. It began with bodies in the water. It began with African bodies in the water. [...]

I sit beneath the sky on a midsummer night aside the brook aloof from the turbulence and cacophonies I try to evade

I'm staring at a world gone by, laughing without reason or want. There are people on the pathways and cars on the street, but they hide[...]

Too many of us bury ourselves under smiles, believing in the flat happiness of dollar bills, [...]

1, 2, 3. Joe drank as quickly as he could so nobody could catch him. Flames licked his throat, and sunlight held his skin [...]

Sickroom A matter of fact thrill likely bends in an arc A thrill sends signals in different directions. ...

When I first announced that I was leaving everything to follow Him, my wife and daughter couldn't understand. [...]

I understood very early that I was not Bonny despite what my parents named me. But I could make myself forget. [...]