Her grandma had once asked her how you could tell the difference between something that had disappeared and something that had escaped

I miss my home. Although I’ve never seen where it is, I close my eyes and picture every detail it contains.

“What’s the most serious problem? Home lor! Drugs lor! Everyday besides sleeping and playing games you do what? Yes, kill people lor! So the government commercialized the plan lor, scientists spent ten years to research how to store up sleep, so these Juveniles can be useful lor.”

Jennifer Marie Brissett, Malka Older, and Tim O Connell

Black History Month, the value of remembering, and the often silent heroism of existence.

Novelists Malka Older and Jennifer Marie Brissett discuss the ins and outs of writing speculative fiction

Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, inquiring into a poetics emerging from the adopted diasporic condition, guest-curates a portfolio of poems for The Line Break.