A Reminiscence of High School Required Reading that Triggered My Search for the Black Protagonist Great Expectations | The Odyssey | Greek Tragedies | Henry the Fourth | Upon the Head of the Goat | Medea | Out of Many: A History of the American People | Sons and Lovers | The Great Gatsby | Mrs. Dalloway | The Tempest | ParadiseContinue reading “A Micro By K.B. Carle”
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Divorced By Amy Barnes
DIVORCED A car the size of a house rams our house that’s the size of a house. Thunder from a 1986 Thunderbird shakes me out of my canopy bed to the window to the street. It’s the moment I know my mother is a liar, a big one. She lays there lazy for too longContinue reading “Divorced By Amy Barnes”
At Home, Adrift by Rashi Rohatgi
In lockdown, my son sings in the bath. “U is for ulta-pulta,” he says, quoting his current favorite book. He warns his wooden flamingo, “Here comes a topsy-turvy wave!” The research suggests that trying to pass on a language sans context to a third generation is hopeless, but I cannot stop. His first blocks wereContinue reading “At Home, Adrift by Rashi Rohatgi”
Two Micros by Jared Povanda
The Idea of a Thing is Not the Thing Itself This boy wants a cat for the idea of a cat. Real responsibility chokes him. This boy wants to embody the writer—navy sweater, gold chinos, salmon boat shoes, honey hair tousled, thick brown glasses, posing with the frothing sea at his back, black feline inContinue reading “Two Micros by Jared Povanda”
Driving Like a Boss by Myna Chang
T-Rex dislikes my neighbor’s dog. It’s a vicious little yapper. T-Rex is afraid Neighbor-Dog will bite his foot. Stop being a wimp, I say. Stomp that mutt. Sometimes Neighbor-Dog chases my kid. Don’t let that yapping menace chase my kid, I say. Use those big dinosaur feet. T-Rex would rather go water skiing. Fine, I say. But I can’t drive the boat. There’s too much turbulence. I’ll do it, T-Rex says. Vroom vroom.Continue reading “Driving Like a Boss by Myna Chang”
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