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Obsessive Intimacies

Obsessive Intimacies Yani Excerpt This nigga must’ve either lost his fucking mind or he thinks I’m still the same dumb and naïve Tierra from high-school and college. I know muthafucking ...

Holding Pattern

Holding Pattern Jeffery Renard Allen Excerpt Black flutter, Mamma flashed about the room, workbound, her shiny knee-length black leather boots working against the wood floor like po...

Shoe’s on the Otha’ Foot

Shoe’s on the Otha’ Foot Hunter Hayes Excerpt Chapter 1 "I REMINISCE"  Precisely four forty-seven p.m., and the damn beat-beat of my heart is racing to catch up with the tick-...

Ida Mae

Ida Mae Delores Thornton Excerpt Ida Mae stumbled into the kitchen, careful not to wake Papa or Milan, as she climbed the back stairs. If I’m lucky, I can pour a bath and bandage my wounds and ...