“City of Dead Souls” by Agee Sasso

When I got to the top of the stairs, he pushed his hulking shoulders from the wall and pointed backward at the sign on my door. I made up the half step I’d lost at the sight.

“You him?” he said . . .

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“The Boy on the Box” by GG Burrows

There’s lights on the ceiling, big white circles, each one brighter than beach sun, but you can’t blink or squint when they’re taking your picture . . .

Stephanie Stio: On the Paz Prize for Poetry and Dinapiera Di Donato’s Colaterales/Collateral

Stephanie Stio discusses the creation of the Paz Prize for Poetry and the selection of the prize’s inaugural winner, Dinapiera Di Donato’s Colaterales/Collateral.

“No Time Like the Past” by Matthew Sharpe

There’s no time like the past, Steven thought as he entered his time machine. He found himself in the maternity ward of a small rural hospital at 8 am on April 16, 1971—the day he was to be born . . .

“Paignton Rust” by Tom Leins

It’s happy hour at the Dirty Lemon, but I recognize the same lipstick smear on my glass from when I was in here this morning. It’s 9 pm, but the room is still hot and my half-drunk beer is already warm . . .

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“White Sneakers: The Art of Saying Fuck You” by Bernice L. McFadden

Many years ago I read a collection of essays entitled: The Habit of Surviving: Black Woman’s Strategies For Life, by Kesho Yvonne Scott . . .