“Thom believed that he should be able to control it, and that contributed to his downfall,”his brother remembers. “He had six months of sobriety and he was doing all these wonderful things. He was calling me and telling me: ‘Feeling good! Losing weight! Doing great!’ And then sudde...
Two weeks after Justin came to America, issues appeared in their relationship that could not be resolved. Nikki complained that Justin wasn’t helping her with the housework and expected her to cook and clean for him. Nikki and Justin got into a lot of arguments. During one, Nikki told Jus...
A young woman pays a devastating price for freedom in this heartrending and breathtaking novel of the nineteenth-century South。 1850。 I was six years old the day Lewis Holt came to take me away。 Born into slavery, Dahlia never knew her mother—or what happened to her。 When Dahlia’s...
Here is what our good friends in government say: After consultation with interagency partners, Secretary Mayorkas determined on June 3, 2024, that an 18-month extension and redesignation of Haiti for TPS is warranted because conditions that support Haiti’s designation are ongoing and that doing ...
“how to sneeze in peace” was first published in the Australian journal, Heat, in 2001 and showcases burns's imaginative faculty which allows her to so acutely locate the absurd in the quotidian. I also wanted to share “she had more friends,” a poem I have always loved. Ingeniously ...