We were just leafletting. Even that felt good. It was cold but bright as we stepped into the first day of December, with Christmas wreaths adorning thresholds, doors wrapped like presents. A man on a ladder was hanging a Santa formed out of lights...
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Landscaping
My brother digs holes in the ground all day long every day he would rather dig a hole or four hundred than go home to the family at dinnertime sit around the table gutting chicken picatta in silence. He would rather drive the landscape truck up and...
Rion Amilcar Scott Is an MC’s MC: An Interview by Reginald Dwayne Betts
Rion Amilcar Scott is an MC’s MC. He creates the kind of imaginative landscapes that seem so real you wonder why you haven’t been paying attention to the world in the way that he has. But I gotta confess. I slept on his first book; the collection of...
Paper People
No child wanted to be sent to The Shredder. It hid in a concrete, windowless structure several blocks from the car towing company, the chicken factory farms, and the E-waste recycling centers. That was where the unwanted kids went: the kids who...