The crowd outside is angry. They shout obscenities at each other to build courage, shake pieces of pipe, boards, baseball bats, all to manufacture menace. They mill about the beyond the house, waiting for their pinned back energy to reach …
Pills ease pain, until the day it’s needles to vein.
Eric Persaud is an Indo-Guyanese American living in New York City. He is currently working on his doctoral dissertation in Public Health and writing stuff in his free time.…
“Mishibizhiw is the great lynx or the wildcat of the sea,” my mother explained as she stuffed a pack of cigarettes into my duffle bag, cellophane crinkling against army green nylon. I was just about to remind her I didn’t …
Kelvin rubbed the V-shaped cut in his forehead as he limped into his home. Meg dropped her dish and ran to him, “What happened, Kelvin?”
“I sneezed on the bus. They called me a ‘virus boy’ and threw me out.”…
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This Saturday, Zihao woke up and kept his eyes closed to let the sound in. Trained on the four tones of his native Mandarin language, Zihao’s ears could pick out the subtlest shades in a welter of everyday noises …
“What is it with you and married women?” Ed Solomon asked Marcus Coleman the morning after the band they were filling in with played a weekend at a club in Baltimore.
“You don’t know?” replied Marcus.
“Know what?”
“They appreciate …
Marty is tearing along Elida Road in his Buccaneer Red Trans Am. We take a side road and pick up always-late Terry, wrinkled white uniform open at the chest, purple belt trailing behind him as he runs barefoot down the …
There, lying next to the Visa/Master Card sign was what looked like a 2-carat diamond. Or a nice piece of glass.
I put down my usual turkey sandwich, mid chew, and examined the sparkly object with the dental magnification glasses …
FREE! Ancient human skull urgently needs rehoming. Excellent conversation piece!
Author is an old chap, grappling with themes of limits, longings and finitude. Likes spooky stuff. …
I can’t believe I liked a guy who hates tomatoes and treats books badly. I can forgive the other stuff, the little things, the classics like leaving the toilet seat up and lying all the time, but this? Too far, …