I’m downtown and they’re pulling me over for being a paisa with a ponytail in a gangbang car on the white folks’ street at the wrong time.
HOT AIR BALLOON by Mathieu Gorman

Nolan scanned the view, perplexed by what he was seeing. It seemed like he was wondering why his daddy would have chosen to live here instead of the house we called home.
WAY TO A WOLF by Gina Burgess

Ginger dashed through her kitchen, choking on a thick cloud of smoke…. It was the third batch of pastries she’d burnt that day, and deep down inside, she knew she’d burnt them on purpose.
ON THE ROAD TO BAMAKO by Shuna Meade

My world shudders to a stop, as if the pause button has been hit.
1964 by Bett Butler

The young girl’s sandals slap the buckled sidewalks of Wesley Street. She feels silly and conspicuous in her grandmother’s sun hat.
CHARLES by Rebecca Rhodes

It had taken Liam three years to work up the courage to admit he despised and genuinely feared Charles.
CROWS REMEMBER by Dona McCormack

She couldn’t tamp down the shriek working its way up her throat.
SYNCHRONICITY by David Rogers

I’m a prospector…. I find things of value, whatever their nature, wherever they turn up. I find things that are lost.
THE LAND OF THE MORNING CALM by Joseph Cusumano

Her first indication of something awry was the towering statue of Kim Il Sung, known to his citizens as Great Leader.