By Tara Campbell when hate comes marching into town it bashes streetlights left and right incited by a raving clown. They’ll yank the phone- and power lines down to shock and choke us in the night when hate comes marching into town. We’ll stand together—black, white, brown queer, Muslim, Jew—against the blight incited by […]
By Karen Greenbaum-Maya “I was sitting at the table, we had finished dinner,” T***p told Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo. “We’re now having dessert—and we had the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake that you’ve ever seen—and President Xi was enjoying it.” So many problems are being solved by chocolate cake. Beautiful cakes, perfect 10s, […]
By Christa Miller The first time Haitham flies he is trying to flee the gang of teenagers in the camp who think he has something worth stealing. He is running, running, and then there is a building before him, the kitchen where his mother works during the day. Before he knows what he is […]
By Larry D. Thacker You’ve got twenty-four hours to wring out the story. Maybe not that even. Something shinier could surface out of that early morning Twitter abyss, from so deep and lightless the thing might be unrecognizable but for its stench of current interest, eyeless, translucent hide capable of handling the depth pressures that […]
By M.A. Durand I sing of chickens being eaten. Every. Single. One. In the rooms. Someone paid. The price high. The bodies cheap. I sob you do not want to be there. What I sing is what I have heard and seen. My eyes and ears are old they see and hear young Black bodies […]
By Daryl Sznyter in the 1800s we were banned from riding trains because it was thought our uteruses would fly away as though that should scare us as though some small part of us didn’t want that all along as though our wombs weren’t tiny saucers from the beginning of […]
