I've been walking for hours, the scene looping, looping, looping in my head.How could you have said those things?"Heartless!""Spiteful!""Vindictive!""Deceitful!""Cruel!"I open the bedroom door to darkness."Can you ever forgive me?""Of course," you whisper back, "I love you, you silly fool."I am...

"What you staring at, bitch? Got something against big black girls?"I look up at the young woman who had been sitting a few tables away. She glares down, arms crossed below formidable breasts threatening to burst her BLM tee."Admiring your tat," pointing...

No one can remember when the street lights last worked. Now the corner is only lit by the garish glow from the 24-hour laundromat and Mr. Chow's Chinese neon across the street. I park in front of the heavily shuttered...

"Gonna shoot at the park today, Kis?""Yep""Meet me at that little creek you like.""Ah, okay. 8:30?""Then."I was early, but she was earlier. I found her behind some tangled bushes, naked on a blanket, leaning against a big tree. She's humming,...

The Rite of Cleansing

"The wanderer aids the sisterhood"

Her eyes are losing focus. The muscles in their lids are slowly succumbing to the speaker's basso mosquito drone that's painting the hall in warm molasses. Her chin begins its steady descent, as her mind curls away, searching for the...