The River
2023 Short Story Collection Collection by Audrey Kuo - “The River”
She is simply herself, always flowing and rushing, carrying along whatever we offer her, pulling it away and down the river, to another part of herself where she takes and smashes and destroys, reminding us that everything terrible cannot last forever.
obligation
2023 Short Story Collection Collection by Joré Aaron - “obligation”
And healing, we also learn, might mean realizing that the bitterness that formed in the back of your gritted teeth during the angst of your teenage years may have been completely justified, and that your parents indeed had some answering to do.
Where Green Grass Doesn’t Grow
2023 Q26 Short Story Collection Selection by Selena Razack - “Where The Green Grass Doesn’t Grow”
I catch myself when I dream I’d be back there again, turning sticks and stones, right when I stood over you, hoping green grass would grow.
If I Die: A Black Trans Request
2023 Q26 Short Story Collection Selection by Codi Charles - “If I Die: A Black Trans Request”
If I die, i do not want to be memorialized. i do not want to be undesirable and despised in my living only to be lessened and capitalized off of in my death.