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“Radioactive” | Flash Fiction Series

The destruction of the spirit is an instantaneous shock. Its lasting echoes whip about in the mind like a dragon’s tail. But the true damage only lasts a moment. The problem is that there are so many moments and so many aftershocks. I am — we are — watching you…

Black Women

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“Radioactive” | Flash Fiction Series
“Radioactive” | Flash Fiction Series

Apr 24

Change is an Instantaneous Shock | Sunday Soliloquy

There is something to be said for change. In spite of all our collective grumbling that change is difficult, that it takes a long time, that “we” — because really, who is we? — are afraid of change, once it occurs it seems it is instantaneous and absolute. I am…

Blogging

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Change is an Instantaneous Shock | Sunday Soliloquy
Change is an Instantaneous Shock | Sunday Soliloquy

Apr 17

Nowhere Safe for Colored Eggs to Eat | Sunday Soliloquy

I told myself I would write yesterday and I didn’t. I told myself I would eat properly yesterday and I didn’t. I have to imagine those two desires, to eat and to express, are intimately intertwined just as — perhaps — the reason why I accomplished neither. It is too…

Black Women

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Nowhere Safe for Colored Eggs to Eat | Sunday Soliloquy
Nowhere Safe for Colored Eggs to Eat | Sunday Soliloquy

Dec 31, 2021

The Time Traveler’s Lament | 9

It took longer to get back this time. Much longer. Life changing amounts of time longer. And yet, as I check the calendar now, only two months have passed since the final turn of this experiment. What does it mean to feel lifetimes pass by you in an instant? To…

Afrofuturism

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The Time Traveler’s Lament | 9
The Time Traveler’s Lament | 9

Oct 6, 2021

The Time Traveler’s Lament | 8

It has been some time, hasn’t it? I’ll admit to you, dear reader, that upon returning to the present this go around I took some time for myself, to breathe, to think. To rest. It is so rare that I allow myself to bask in the simple pleasures of the…

Afrofuturism

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The Time Traveler’s Lament | 8
The Time Traveler’s Lament | 8

Aug 29, 2021

The Time Traveler’s Lament | 7

It is rare for me to set deadline’s for myself, dear friend. You may understand — the nature of my profession or rather, perhaps, my condition — is that something as arbitrary as a deadline can seem, ironically, a waste of time to consider. …

Afrofuturism

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The Time Traveler’s Lament | 7
The Time Traveler’s Lament | 7

Aug 11, 2021

The Time Traveler’s Lament | 6

Our sense of the future is so perfectly strange, is it not? I think now on the timeline I had once believed my life should inevitably follow, an itinerary my child self had haphazardly constructed from the milestones of those around me. My mother is my most influential figure in…

Afrofuturism

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The Time Traveler’s Lament | 6
The Time Traveler’s Lament | 6

Aug 6, 2021

The Time Traveler’s Lament | 5

It is time now, dear reader, for me to disabuse you of any archaic notions you may have of time travel. For years, centuries — millennia — we have all been placed inside of boxes with colorfully painted interiors, no windows, no doors, and told that the box itself was…

Afrofuturism

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The Time Traveler’s Lament | 5
The Time Traveler’s Lament | 5

Jul 25, 2021

The Time Traveler’s Lament | 4

I was away for the last couple days in your time. I apologize for that. Other timelines tend to pull at my synapses and suddenly I am by a roaring river said to have run dry centuries ago, legs folded in the red clay-colored dust, smiling into the gentle mist…

Mental Health

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The Time Traveler’s Lament | 4
The Time Traveler’s Lament | 4

Jul 22, 2021

The Time Traveler’s Lament | 3

I have the curtains drawn, blocking out as much of the day’s light as possible. It seems that today is to be a day that wreaks havoc on my mind and sense of purpose. It is too warm to move, except to get water or the odd snack, and every…

Mental Health

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The Time Traveler’s Lament | 3
The Time Traveler’s Lament | 3
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