The shadow of the master, the reminder that
Rare frost that morning, the wind howling
When the slaves finished, they had stripped the fields of their color. It was a magnificent operation, from seed to bale, but no one of them could be prideful of their labor. It had been stolen from t...
Versifying left her cold. Poems were too close to prayer, rousing regrettable passions. Waiting for God to rescue you when it was up to you. Poetry and prayer put ideas in people's heads that got them...
There was one moment of intersection, when the topic of hate-watching came up. Why do you watch TV shows--and keep watching them--if you don't like them? Terrence asked.Simple: Some days, all you have...
In our modern age, cell phone technology permits us to record the constant brutality that occurs all around us; we experience not an uptick in violence but a new kind of witnessing.
The only time early bloomer has ever been applied to me is vis-a-vis my premature apprehension of the deep dread-of-existence thing. In all other cases, I plod and tromp along. My knuckles? Well dragg...
Stubborn breaks when it don’t bend,
From the trunk of their scheme, choices and decisions sprouted like branches and shoots.
To the empty space usually reserved for Valentine.
Scattered parkgoers. Cora hunkered and
There will be no redemption because the men who run this place do not want redemption. They want to be as near to hell as they can.
The tunnel pulled at her. How many hands had it required to make this place? And the tunnels beyond, wherever and how far they led? She thought of the picking, how it raced down the furrows at harvest...
It didn't make no sense until it made the only sense.
High-minded idiocy pitted against the power of coin.
Life is an argument with the world over time.
Placated
Who are you after you finish something this magnificent—in constructing it you have also journeyed through it, to the other side.
The patroller required no reason to stop a person apart from color.
Stolen bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with blood.