Apr 18, 2023
Ghosts come in many forms. In Chesya Burke’s story “Haint Me Too,” this ghost is of the angry kind. She haunts the Myrtle House, a Southern plantation home, inhabited by “the Perfect Southern American Dream” (“father, mother, three boys and two girls”). Young Shea, the daughter of a Black sharecropping...
Apr 4, 2023
In her short story “The Debt,” Ania Ahlborn weaves a modern fairytale. Karolin is an 11 year old girl, supposedly visiting her grandmother in Poland for the first time, but her grandmother is nowhere to be found. She’s traveled there with her father, both of them still reeling from the death of Karolin’s mother...