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Coming Through © By Lena Zaghmouri
Excerpt “Mom told us countless stories about her family. People always seemed surprised when I told them Mom was the storyteller in the family. My baba was the Arab. He was the one who was supposed...
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Travel © By Kim Crosby
Excerpt “…As I type, I am passing through North Carolina on a train through lush green leaves, so thick that they are reclaiming the since abandoned structures built by humans littered across the...
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Proud to be Coal and not Grimm: (Fairy tale) Ouch that hurts!
From Femficatio The White Bride and the Black Bride By Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm “A woman was walking with her daughter and stepdaughter over the fields to cut fodder when the dear Lord came toward...
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CATCHING THE BUS IN DIFFERENT ZIP CODES © by Margie Shaheed
Excerpt from Modes of Transportation: Catching the Bus in Different Zip Codes by poet and writer Margie Shaheed. Note from Editor: This is a gripping tale, a few hundred words paints the American...
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Tales of Anu: The Lovers (excerpt)
By Askia M Touré “Death, to me, today is like health to the ill, like going outdoors after confinement. Death to me, today, is like the fragrance of lotus, like sitting on the shore of feasting ….”...
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All the Strauss-Kahn’s © by Louisa Lum
Short Story by Louisa Lum Most people are shockingly callous when it comes to discussions about rape. Angie knew this because she had been a victim, and in her community being a victim was tantamount...
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Nutcracker Man ©
Novel Excerpt of “Nutcracker Man” by Kamaria Muntu Ordinary people do not wake up one morning and suddenly decide to kill their neighbours. Ngugi wa Thiong’o “Celibacy… as the official position of the...
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Does Anyone Know This Man I Am With? © Anna Salamone
Does anyone know the old man who shops at the Goodwill? He’s always looking for bargains, buying high fashion labels at minimal prices. Taking pride in the fact that being well dressed does not have...
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Fourth Time Running For Woman © Nana Nyarko Boateng
Fourth Time Running for Woman By Nana Nyarko Boateng A woman was what I thought I was. Turned 18 years a week ago, last Saturday, and the constitution agreed I was a woman, I can vote. I was a woman,...
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Intelligence © Tathagata Mitra
Intelligence By Tathagata Mitra “What are you writing?” asked Arpita as she appeared from behind Rahul without warning. She did that. It was her habit. It was also much like her to start a conversation...
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