Category: Dwight Thompson

Janoah and de Soulboat

Dandy dance till him salt-and-pepper mohawk dripping sweat. When him see me, him flash him gold teeth. The Devil’s red mask is back on his face. The day get as hot as hell. Me hands get so sweaty me bible slip. And though I standing in the sanctified body of Jaheim Murray, born-again christian, I am Warwick again, back on the battlefield.

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Passover

Daddy used to be a dinki mini chairman himself before the heart attack. (People sey is bad duppy kill him.) He praised the ancestors when Courtney bawn. He never complained when she chose gerreh over dinki. “She’s a leader, Peadove,” he prophesied, “not a follower…”

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The Exorcism 

Then we became fulla the spirit. Something awoke inside us. I never see a girl with such fire like Dreenie! We became temples rocking with Kodesh fire. Singing, clapping, dipping the hems of our abayas in blood. It felt like Yom Teruah, it felt like a day of shouting and blowing! She kept coming at me, doing a wild dance, and I doing me own outta control dancing, the two of us giddy, and we realized instinctively that we just set ourselves free and nobody could take it away from us.

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November 3, 2023
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PREE 11

FICTION

 THE CAY
 Ethan Knowles

THE VENGEANCE OF MOKO
Gilberte Farah

PORK
Ryan Cecil Jobson

THE OLD GUARDS ARE CAMPING OUTSIDE
Alicia Valasse-Polius

LAUREL’S SECRET
Mikayla Vieira Ribeiro

THE GENERATOR OR UNLIKELY BENEFICIARIES OF THE TREATY OF BREDA
Montague Kobbé

POETRY

FROM SPAIN TOWN TO OUTER SPACE AND OTHER POEMS
Mbala Mgabo

MOORING
Shauna M. Morgan

STREETSWEEPER
Jenelle Samuels

REWILDING
Luke Elliott

HOLY BLUES AND OTHER POEMS
John Robert Lee

ART-ICLES

DARK EXPOSURE: ROBERTA STODDART’S THE BERTHA ROOM
Isis Semaj-Hall 

SURVIVING THE DREAM
Roberta Stoddart

BRAWTA

POETRY

THE MOUNTAIN THAT COULD BE EATEN; DAO CHANG
Loretta Collins-Klobah

MAD HATTERS; LEAKY; BERMUDA GOMBEY COSTUME
Nancy Anne Miller

FICTION

JANOAH AND DE SOULBOAT
Dwight Thompson

CHARLEMAGNE FONTAINE DONKEY FOOT
Carol B. Duncan

LA UBER LLORONA
Yzahira R. Valle García

EL CUCO
Eugene Speakes

ESSAY

THE ART OF BELONGING
Diana Thorburn

BRIEF AND CANDID NOTES ON ARTIFICIAL ARCHIVE
Rodell Warner

WHITE HOUSES: WORDS AFTER READING SAFIYA SINCLAIR’S
HOW TO SAY BABYLON

Diana McCaulay

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