by Chris Campanioni It is getting harder and harder to tell the colonized from the colonizers. Today one wore blue, the other white. Three days earlier the outfits were reversed. Who was it who was it that said revolutions repeat themselves, the same fantasies played out by different characters, on a revolving stage. It’s true,…
Category: Flash
This Place is a Lottery
by Leila Barghouty I woke up this morning, and I stared at the ceiling. I wasn’t afraid of it. I didn’t think it might be the last thing I ever saw, that I might wake up in a pile of rubble, lungs filled with the pulverized powder that was once my home. My ears didn’t…
Ama Asantewa Diaka
Hand me down It is not only Mamaa’s genes that have punctuated their geography on Ayebea’s face. It’s her personality too. Saturday evening, and they’re glued to the TV watching The Voice. Jaden, Aunty Gifty’s son, has his audition airing tonight, and they don’t want to miss it. A lanky white girl with a voice…
Sabrina Helen Li
I bear so much about you The sparrows are swollen, and nobody notices. My father doesn’t know this, but I’ve replaced the deer, the birds, the squirrels in our backyard with statues. He shoots, and the stone blossoms. My father smiles, not knowing the difference. The blood is still left in the body. When I’m…