In a moment of temporary insanity, Mommy took me shopping even though she had forgotten the entrapment device… er, I mean stroller… at home. My sister was at preschool. How hard could it be to run errands with one child?
Paul steered the deadrise boat around the shoals, keeping his distance from the shallow Chesapeake waters around the barrier island. Wouldn’t do to get stuck in the muck. Not today.
Molly wants to swing, so I pick her up and thread her legs through the vinyl harness. I shove her off, and she wheee’s, yawing to one side. It’s higher than I push her with other parents around. But we have the park to ourselves, for now.
Curdella Forbes’s A Tall History of Sugar was reviewed in the New York Times Book Review!
Congratulations to Akashic author Bernardine Evaristo, whose novel Girl, Woman, Other has won the 2019 Booker Prize!
Another doorway opens and two more guys come through the door with guns. “What is this?” one guy says.
“This is our room. We’re here to get Ed.” “So are we.”
The moon rose this night as it had done in the days, months, and years before, as it would tomorrow and the night after that if life remained, but this night was different.
I’d been in Stateline for four days, trying to find a coke dealer named Daniel Fowler. He was the reason my friend Powell was headed to San Quentin, or so I’d been told.
Not for Everyday Use
Black Lotus
Nairobi Noir (Kenya)
Sale
Nelson George Two Book Set
Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn
The Necessary Hunger
The Girl with the Golden Shoes
Scars of the Soul Are Why Kids Wear Bandages When They Don’t Have Bruises
The Family Mansion
Caught Up
Revolutionary Threads: Rastafari, Social Justice, and Cooperative Economics
Cake