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Book Review: Red Clay

The Taborian — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 23:56:10 +0000

In Red Clay, Charles B. Fancher delivers a beautifully crafted work of historical fiction that is as emotionally resonant as it is narratively compelling.

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Salud 2025: Dolen Perkins-Valdez Brings Happy Land to Light

The Taborian — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 03:45:38 +0000

Dolen Perkins-Valdez delivers another striking work of historical fiction with Happy Land, shining a light on a remarkable chapter of American history that has long remained in the shadows.

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At the Crossroads of History: Fiction, Memory, and the Power of Reclamation

The Taborian — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 22:09:38 +0000

Photo Credit: D. Lamont At the Crossroads of History: Fiction, Memory, and the Power of Reclamation In a dimly lit auditorium, where the audience sat in quiet anticipation, two authors took the stage under the sharp glare of spotlights. At...

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First Love

The Taborian — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 21:02:14 +0000

First Love By Shaun Day Woods Share Poetry She tried to love him lessTo make the phone calls more infrequent.To think of love as a conspiracyBetween sadness and sadism.For a while she even begged her breasts To stop growing. Her...

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A Cowboy Ghazal in a Time of Global Warming

The Taborian — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 20:50:20 +0000

A Cowboy Ghazal in a Time of Global Warming By Michael Boissevain Share Poetry When I was a kid, my mother made stew and biscuits with honey. In that time the world spun quietly around us. My horse goes where...

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Crossover Flirting

The Taborian — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 20:44:16 +0000

Crossover Flirting By Allison Whittenberg Share Poetry Imagine your finance’s hand up my thigh,Him telling me I looked like a Black Julia RobertsSo innocent, so hotSomething about my narrow faceMy steel belted radial lips…All rightI liked itThis being fed.Enormous is...

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Bombay Beach

The Taborian — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 19:07:54 +0000

Bombay Beach By Kendrick Lee Share Stories PART 1: THE END OF THE WORLD 1. Chan gets a little lostAfternoon. Out past hundreds of miles of natural nothing, under a blistering summer sun, long past the point Palm...

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1984

The Taborian — Sat, 31 May 2025 14:21:20 +0000

Membership Login Forum Search The Collection:Chapter 81984 By Amari Pleasant Share Essays Eeriness is the aura that sweeps out the speakers. A mosaic of anguish illustrated through solemn instrumentation…punctuated by sobering groans, gravely bass strums, moody keys, and grimacing whimpers....

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Feet First

The Taborian — Sat, 31 May 2025 13:53:50 +0000

Feet First By Melanie Maier Share Poetry He leaves us unexpectedly, as we sat outside his open bedroom door laughing and reminiscing about the jokes he loved to tell; the stories he made up for sleepy daughters, his laugh that...

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Gloss off-white paint

The Taborian — Sat, 31 May 2025 13:22:51 +0000

Gloss off-white paint By DS Maolalaí Share Poetry the house still reminds me of my grandmotherin spite of the work. it’s not that she lived herebut the shell of thick paint which enamels each door is exactly the same as...

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