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“AN unHAPPY MEAL” by Nkosi Ife Bandele

You got me. I sometimes steal away into McDonald’s with my nine year old, and we share a large fry. . .

Now Available: New Haven Noir, edited by Amy Bloom

It was at the town library that I heard about Officer Harrington’s quick thinking on the front steps of the MacCann house . . .

There was a young couple eating on the floor of a dead shipmaster. . .

I braced myself on the backseat as my red taxi careened around the corner. . .

It was a typical August night in Tokyo when each breath felt like you were sucking cotton into your lungs. . .

Now Available: Atlanta Noir, edited by Tayari Jones

Now Available: Twenty-Year Anniversary Notebooks