Rachel couldn’t move voluntarily because every muscle in her body was so tense that she shook. “Have you been drinking tonight, ma’am? Do you have…
Three voices. One literary house.
Month: February 2026
A young woman entered the office of the president carrying a worn piece of paper. Communication was under constant surveillance, so citizens sent private messages…
On the east side of Manhattan, near 52nd Street, there was an old art high school where the teachers were working artists, and the students…
In the Book of Genesis, man is made flesh by God. In the Garden of Eden, woman is made from man’s bones—and it is she…
Rebecca waved her arms and it wasn’t working. Rebecca wasn’t even her real name. It was something she had found in a book. Mei knew…
Mei Lubaba was awake before the sun, before the cows, before the milkmaids and the farmhands. She was awake before the roosters, the housemaids, and…
The raising of a middle finger as an insult dates back to before the time of Jesus. In Ancient Greece, the aristocracy used the raised…
President Taryn tapped her well-manicured fingers on her well-worn mahogany desk. It was a beautiful relic, she thought, enjoying the sound of each of the…
The evening’s haze diffused the fading light of the setting sun beautifully as my craft descended and landed safely onto the planet surface. Thank the…
Sad, broken, and jostling without a seatbelt, Melvin Hawthorne left Chicago, Illinois, for Woodstock, New York, in the wee hours of the early morning. “I…