Stories
Mami’s Daughter
In the largest rivers of Nigeria, there dwells a beautiful woman.
BLESSING NNATE
Sweet Tooth
It was a great date.
MEGAN PETRONELLA
My Mother’s First Husband and Us
My mother has been married three times, which she might sheepishly admit to you…
MARCUS KNOKE
The Man in the Iron Mask
Chapter XVIII: A Night at the Bastile
Pain, anguish, and suffering in human life…
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
The Conquest
Chapter III: Chicago, Chasing A Will-O-The-Wisp
That was on Sunday morning three hundred miles south of Chicago…
OSCAR MICHEAUX
Sir Steven and the Ginko Grove
Steven’s snapping up breathless in bed, gaping at the wall paper rich with pink…
Bennett Kremen
Connected@Panama
A private funeral service by invitation. The newspaper notice said it all.
R. P. Singletary
A Story of Vengeance
Yes, Eleanor, I have grown grayer.
Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
The Fire in the Flint
Chapter II
Situated in the heart of the farming section of the State…
Walter F. White
A Great Kingdom in the Congo
I had studied the new dialect of the Bakuba….
William Henry Sheppard
The Accident
Behind me in the dark, the siren from the Polizia winds down.
Gary Duehr
Cusping
Lauren and I were born so late in Gemini season…
Colleen Alles
Notes From the Underground
Part I – Underground
Chapter I
I am a sick man…. I am a spiteful man.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Go, Falcons!
Ryan runs through the eight count, singing along to the song in her head.
Shaquira McInnis
This Way to the Warden’s Office
The colony looked like it would sink into the bog of permafrost underneath it but it never did.
Arthur Velker
The Kiss
It was still quite light out of doors…
Kate Chopin
Family Bible
The girl probably thought she was being sly, sneaking around back of his tractor shed like that.
Marco Etheridge
A.R.M.
Nobody taught me how to use a condom.
Odi Welter
War and Peace:
Chapter XXIV
There was now no one in the reception room except Prince Vasíli and the eldest princess…
Leo Tolstoy
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, The African
I believe it is difficult for those who publish their own memoirs to escape the imputation of vanity…
Olaudah Equiano
A Daughter of the Samurai:
Chapter 4 – The Old and the New
I was about eight years old when I had my first taste of meat.
Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto
A Warrior’s Daughter
In the afternoon shadow of a large tepee, with red-painted smoke lapels, sat a warrior father with crossed shins.
Zitkala-Sa
