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even though they are shooting us dead on the streets, even though these politicians don’t care if we eat or not, even though these legislators call us fools, even if the headline every morning is about fuel hike, even though we can’t tell where this country is heading, even though we have been looking for…
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A trail of bright red drips extends down the hallway; remnants from last night’s little accident. The woman I live with let herself go a little too long between feedings in an attempt to lose weight and got so hungry she ended up draining one of her human friends. She said he was trying to…
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Find us on Venice Beach, on Santa Monica, on Hermosa. We’ve smiled at you on Manhattan Beach, our pearly whites gleaming. We’ve let you kiss our red lipstick lips, and then we drew our fangs and plunged.
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The name of the town is not important. It is another small town in another state that no one knows about but yet can be found on any state map. It could be your current location, a place you have lived in for six months and yet it could be your childhood home.
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Betty Hernandez hated airports. The smell of recycled air, the endless lines, the nervous silence hanging over families pretending everything was normal—it all reminded her of the day they fled Mexico after her father’s murder trial exploded across the news. Now, months later, she stood outside West Acre High School staring at a completely different…
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The Hunters were not police. That was the first thing Patricia learned. They operated privately. No uniforms. No public records. Their existence lived mostly in rumors among London’s forgotten youth. According to Solomon, the Hunters specialized in removing “social anomalies.” Runaway networks. Underground communities. Groups capable of destabilizing systems. “They believe uncontrolled communities become threats,”…
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Deep into the heart of the forest they eventually went, blazing a trail that could lead them back to their tent. They walked on with Wole telling them that they had come too far to go back. And so, tiredly they walked on until Adaeze fell into a—a stream! And with a gasp of excitement,…
