Author: ap

Jimani’s Fever

Mention of the war caused Jimani to involuntarily bite the chew stick he was cleaning his teeth with. That was the day he lost both his sight and his mother. The irony! To be physically wounded by the enemy’s weapon long after they’d assailed him mentally.

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American-Made

Johnson was one of the most popular American presidents of all time. A charming, intelligent, Black, Republican, working class, energy entrepreneur, podcaster candidate from Texas. You couldn’t have made it up. The second Black President, first Black Republican President and unlike Obama, no Kenyan, Hawaiian or Indonesian background for the crazies to attack. An “American-Made” President.

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Category Six

Jah had been painting the earth into existence all day, paintbrush in one hand, fat spliff in her lip corner. That night, the heat was more oppressive than a colonizer. So she turned up the Lasko Fan.

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PREE editor Donna Hemans launches new novel

PREE would like to congratulate one of our former editors, Donna Hemans, on the publication of her latest novel THE HOUSE OF PLAIN TRUTH now available from major outlets. Read more about the novel below:

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PREE 14

FICTION

The Talking Forest of Yaminsa
Ayasha Ayurbe

 

Seaside
Jose Belaval

 

Lifting the Veil
Yvonne Weekes

 

Scarface
Melanie Grant

 

All is Not Lost in Translation
Yzahira Valle García

 

Bush Baths
Amanda Haynes

 

Frankie’s Father
Danielle James

 

NONFICTION

The Things We Inherit, The Things We Let Go
Ashae Forsythe

 

POETRY

There is Only Wailing, The First Cries, Inheritance
Yashika Graham

 

An Abecedarian Cut in Half Like a Nose
Amelia Badri

 

Two Poems About Love
Kendel Hippolyte

 

bi·sex·u·al
Choiselle Joseph

 

beautiful hand
Allison Whittenberg

 

For Alton Ellis and other Poems
Amílcar Peter Sanatan

 

To Talk of Trees, The Cannon Ball Tree, Bloody Orange
Debra Providence

 

Blood Songs, Beasts of the Island, Storm Seasons
Joely Williams

 

ART-ICLES

Roberta Stoddart’s “All in the Family” 
Isis Semaj-Hall

 

INTERVIEWS

Unmothered, Unafraid, and Free: A Conversation with Camille U. Adams
Caryn Rae Adams

 

BRAWTA

 

A Final Conversation with Mazola Wa Mwashighadi
Tedecia Bromfield

 

The View from Belle Eau Road 
Judy Raymond

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