“Clubbing” by Jennifer Schaefer

It took the bulky female bouncer all of five seconds to find the stash in Sallie’s bra: “Now, what’s this, love? Next time keep it in your knickers.”

Damn it—now she’d have to try to score inside . . .

“It’s an UNSELFIES Revolution Up in Here” by T Cooper

To celebrate the launch of Black Sheep, our imprint dedicated to young readers, we invited T Cooper, coauthor of the young adult novel Changers Book One: Drew, to tell us about the Unselfies project that is part of WeAreChangers.org.

“Why We Write” by C.J. Farley

Game World author C.J. Farley discusses his experience at the African American Children’s Book Fair, and how one interaction caused him to consider why he writes.

“John’s Spot” by Stephen Buehler

John smashed the Styrofoam cup. No metal spike under there. Did it again. No spike. Two more cups remained. He smashed one of them . . .

Dark Days in Port-au-Prince (Part 5, Josaphat-Robert Large)

Read part four of DARK DAYS IN PORT-AU-PRINCE, our Haiti-set noir short story that was written by Haiti Noir and Haiti Noir 2: The Classics contributors in the style of an exquisite corpse, a collaborative writing process in which each author builds a story based upon what his or her predecessors have provided. Haiti Noir contributor Josaphat-Robert Large continues this haunting short story.

David McConnell’s American Honor Killings Winner of 2014 Stonewall Book Award!

Congratulations to David McConnell, whose latest book, American Honor Killings: Desire and Rage Among Men, has received the 2014 Stonewall Book Award-Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award!

2014 Grammy Award–winner Ziggy Marley Announces New Album, Debut Children’s Book

Ziggy Marley, who received his sixth Grammy Award in 2014 for Best Reggae Album, announces his fifth studio album, FLY RASTA, which will be released simultaneously with his debut children’s book, I Love You Too!

“NO2” by Timmy Reed

We used to sit in my friend Stevie’s tree house and huff nitrous oxide out of a gas cracker we had stolen from Crate & Barrel at the mall. Stevie’s older brother bought the cartridges for us at the local head shop. They were silver and shaped like bullets. They looked the same as the CO2 cartridges we used to operate Stevie’s BB gun, which we also kept in the tree house. The tree house was where we kept everything we held dear that summer . . .