Incognegro
In the early 20th century White went undercover, posing as a white man in the deep south to investigate lynchings. More
Song for Night
Death Is Two Fingers Sliding Across the ThroatDeath is always the expectation here and when my throat was cut it was no different. Nobody explained it at first. Nobody… More
The Perfect Man
Gerard Travers lifted the little dark boy off the train and onto the platform at Victoria. It had been a hard journey from India for the child, who had… More
The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn
1. The Greasy Grass Fight, or the Battle of the Little Bighorn, June 1876“Soldiers falling into camp . . .”In formation, they charged across a broad and open floodplain… More
Recyclopedia
Kill bugs dead. Redundancy is syntactical overkill. A pinprick of peace at the end of the tunnel of a nightmare night in a roach motel. Their noise infects the… More
The Theater of Night
Explaining a HusbandThey say two people aren’t always two people.That’s what I’ve heard. Sometimes, two people,They’re the same person in two places.And it’s not that they have to love… More
Half of a Yellow Sun
Master was a little crazy; he had spent too many years reading books overseas, talked to himself in his office, did not always return greetings, and had too much… More
from Directions to the Beach of the Dead
Mexican Almuerzo in New Englandfor M.G.Word is praise for Marina, up past 3:00 a.m. the night before her flight,preparing and packing the platos tradicionales she’s now heating up inthe… More
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