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"Flowers." Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, Issue 49.1, USA. 2024. Print
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PUBLICATIONS:
The Amistad. Spring 2024.
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Silent CreaturesShe does not speak. Doesn’t make a sound.
Not a cry of pain, though her face twists and her eyes bulge and clench. Sweat drips from her brows to mix with the salt of her tears, and her gnashing teeth draw blood. Yet she makes not a sound. |
The GateI don’t know why I chose this house with its garden of unmanageable vines, irrepressible weeds, and fulsome wildflowers. There might have been an arrangement at one point; a plot or a pattern. A rhyme or a reason. But I watch the flowers bloom in the springtime, a chaotic mess of colors bleeding into the next, and by fall, their beds are a monochrome menagerie of brown stems, bulbs, brittle stocks, and seed pods, ungovernable and appearing to never have been.
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Great Lakes Review; USA. 2023
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Coffin Bell Journal, Vol. 5., Issue #1; USA. 2022.
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The Night King“Leave us,” Dara rumbled, his voice a little less than a growl as he stepped aside to allow his men passage.
The two men that had brought Mary to the cottage turned obediently and left them alone. It was just as well; the room was too small to fit the four of them comfortably. Dara loomed over her, taller than the doorway, his body blocking her only way out. He looked at her with eyes burning with rage and something more... |
The Hanging TreeDaniel had never killed a man before, but that afternoon, he’d killed ten. When he was done, he did not weep for them. He wept for the five that still swung from the bough...
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Midnight & Indigo; USA. 2021.
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The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. USA. 2020.
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PigeonsPigeons walk when they should fly. I chase them around and they walk faster and faster, but they never fly away. They pretend to fly— they flap their wings like they are going to take off, then they just run. They’re not like chickens, though. Chickens can’t fly, really. Pigeons can, but they just don’t want to.
Pigeons are stupid. |
Millennium"The Earth is dying in “Millennium” by Jade T. Woodridge. As the rivers and oceans dry, and radiation levels spike, it’s only a matter of time until life dies along with it. On Millennium, everything will be okay. Right?"
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Midnight & Indigo, Issue #4. USA. 2020.
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Vine Leaves Journal. Issue #15. Australia: Vine Leaves Press. 2016
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The KnifeThere were so many thing that I did not understand. So many things that I should. There were no answers to her wailing in my head, or the ghost of pain from that other life...
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The MeadowMy grandmother used to tell me, "James, you be careful about which birds you follow; you might not never come back." She was a superstitious old woman, always spitting whenever an owl hooted at dusk. I never understood her fear of them; I'd always found them fascinating...
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Witchworks Magazine. Issue #5. USA. 2016.
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Chiron Review. Issue #101. USA. 2015. Print.
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The Invisible BoyThough I could not see, I crouch to hand and knee, peering beneath my vehicle, but nothing -- nothing but the fading light of day and darkness seeping up. But I knew before the first gasp of passersby, and the first scream of terror.
"Come here, little one," I soothed into nothingness, the space between here and there. The gray Area of consciousness. Somehow I knew he came... |