Issue 56: 22 Feb 2018

Thoughts & Prayers

By Jane Rosenberg LaForge   They are offered in rote as if the supply is bottomless; like abstractions, inaction and aesthetics; they could be meaningless or mean anything, so long as they are not so sustaining as steak & lobster for the impoverished; more like succotash & wilted lettuce. Maybe they’re a law firm the […]

The Heroic Slave by Frederick Douglass

Celebrate Black History Month with Frederick Douglass’ only published fiction from the 1853 anthology Autographs for Freedom   Read the entire story on Archive.org, beginning on page 174.

I Am Not a Person

By Jessie Atkin                                                                                                I do not want children I decide, stretched out beneath the eyes of the late-night newsmen.                   My own eyes ache, but not as much as my ears, as my age, as my soul. Yet this ache, this loss without losing, without losing anything I have but the future stings less. It […]

Two Poems by Gary Glauber

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