A trip to the grocery store digs up kudzu, old ghosts, and a shot at redemption. ..
"Then Marguerite told him, in her strange Arabic, that she thought maybe she could love him, and he couldn’t help but laugh." ..
Public Broadcasting Atlanta producer Jack Walsh gets slayed by an Israeli Baroness and hauled off to the Dead Sea for his troubles. ..
With a stir of honey and cinnamon, the tiny girl hands a small clump of yellow to the woman sitting on a park bench. Smiling. Lisping. Looking upward toward another existence— it seems possible no hour will be like this again. The woman thanks her and asks why she’s receiving this small corsage of grace. ..
White Flight and the “Hartsfield Latoya Jackson Intergalactic Spaceport and Nail Emporium.”
Mike Jordan ·
27 April ·
The Atlanta airport: Where oblivious whites giggle and hide institutional racism and intellectual decrepitude behind a bad Facebook joke. ..
In the hot months we’d pass controlled burns in the foothills on our way here; choking forests that couldn’t choke themselves...
Poet Richard King Perkins II takes a road trip through thin love in his new poem...
Outside, she sits smoking on the stoop next to the police officer who’s been sent to guard our house until the sun rises...
The scarring process has three steps. As soon as you’ve fucked up, the first one begins. . ...
Ben Bowlin
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