James Tatam | Backseat Kiss
It didn’t come as a surprise when AJ told me she wanted to open our relationship. We’d been an item for four years, but by the middle of the third year the two of us had long since checked out. | © 20...
17 Apr 202437min
Mark Galarrita | There are three children jumping over a can outside a bodega
When a nice man with a smart phone camera approaches them. It is also the phone he uses to record his real real reviews of the tacos from the authentic food trucks in Brooklyn and the scenes of the no...
10 Apr 202415min
Shannon Scott | My Containment
When the American saw me sitting on a stone in the river, his mouth opened and closed, a brown trout caught on a fishing line. He kept his eyes on me as he hurried to pull off his socks and shoes, as ...
3 Apr 202441min
E. Catherine Tobler | The Let Go
This poem began as flash fiction, and was then whittled even smaller—perhaps ironic, given its subject. I wrote this to explore how we change in a relationship, how it isn’t always healthy or best for...
27 Mars 20245min
Fatima Taqvi | Our Very Best Selves!
I like car journeys in the passenger’s seat. They give me time to think and rethink things beyond the shape of my life. I’m not allowed to play music, but I can in my head. Places blur. Memories tangl...
22 Mars 202429min
Oyedotun Damilola Muees | A Guide to Camping in the Forest
Before we left camp, we were informed about the dos and donts for living in our respective communities, considering we were strangers. Happenings that we newcomers saw as strange should not be enough ...
13 Mars 20249min
Keith Rosson | Second Deaths
Chuck was wire-sick again, so he hobbled up onto Jerome’s porch one sunny afternoon, need curling his spine like a bent clothes hanger. Jerome was the guy who could get you whatever you needed, as lon...
6 Mars 202445min
[BONUS PODCAST] Nalo Hopkinson | The Most Strongest Obeah Woman of the World
John Joseph Adams here, publisher of NIGHTMARE. I recently had the honor and great pleasure of collaborating with Jordan Peele to edit the anthology OUT THERE SCREAMING: An Anthology of New Black Horr...
1 Mars 20241h 7min
