Month: March 2023

Black women

When the Shooting Stops

A flash fiction. CONTENT WARNING In this flash fiction, there is a focus on an incident that involves a mass shooting  One year after the shooting, I went to a festival. A few minutes after I arrived, fireworks—which sounded like gunshots—exploded in the sky. Darkness surrounded me. My hands covering my ears, I tried to …

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The First Black Child to Interrogate an All-White Elementary School, the Most Beautiful Libraries in the World, and Adwa Victory

Curated reading lists. Favorite Essays I Read This Week: After losing his wife during childbirth, this father turns his pain into purpose (via sheknows) The sound of grief (via The New Yorker) Favorite Short Fiction I Read This Week: Snakes by Danielle Evans Favorite Flash Fiction I Read This Week: A middle finger flipped on a school bus by …