“I miss you.” Sarah sat on the stone bench and gazed at the rolling landscape, filled with rows of grey headstones marking the graves of those who now slumbered. The grass, a new-sprung green, blanketed the ground around each headstone… Read More ›
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No Country For Young Boys
The boy sat at the foot of his mother’s bed. The sun strained to push past the tattered curtains, but it was a hopeless endeavor. The tiny slivers of sunlight succeeding in infiltrating the bedroom only served to illuminate the… Read More ›
The Things She Buried
Rachel Patterson was four years old the first time she buried a thing. Though it was not she who had buried it, but her older sister – older by nine seasons. Ushered in by the dewy, green grass, the scent… Read More ›
The Grange
The day began like any other day for the Bentham family. Joyce Bentham woke first. She rolled out of bed and away from her slumbering husband with the ease of one who has repeated a task so often it is… Read More ›
Richard Wright’s The Man Who Was Almost a Man and the Inevitable Failings of Capitalism (Just in Time For the Election)
American author, Richard Wright, was born in Natchez, Mississippi, forty-five years after the emancipation of slaves. Though slavery was technically no longer practiced, codes and laws were still set in place, limiting African-Americans’ rights and freedoms. It was in this… Read More ›
What You Pawn I Will Redeem
What You Pawn I Will Redeem, is a beautiful short story about a homeless Native American, Jackson Jackson, who discovers his grandmother’s regalia in a mysterious pawn shop. He is given twenty four hours to come up with the money… Read More ›
The Field at Dusk
She finds herself standing in the middle of a field that opens up to a dusk emblazoned sky. It could have been any field in any town. People are milling about, some have camps set up around small fires. Various… Read More ›
Morning Pages 