"everywhere i look, i find poetry and prose stemmed from broken hearts about the pain that a failed love brings."

georgie power art by ré ní fhloinn It was one minute to 1am when the message from my dad came in through the family WhatsApp, “Hi Guys. I...

"you get it. another black martyr who died for the cause, an activist, a writer, a queen that must rest in power."

"they tell you so many things, dripping in placation and well-meaning love. but what they don’t tell you?"

"Young kittens without their mothers around rarely make it through but somehow you did, for whatever little time that you were alive."

"i started this year with four grandparents. now, i have three."

"through the many pages and verses of this book, i find myself leaving parts of me between page breaks and picking up parts of brandi."

“just going to go check on begum sahiba,” zakir replied. the rest of the men laughed like zakir had made an actual joke.

"graduation? we laugh and pop champagne in the silverfish-ridden living room of my student flat instead."

“something funny always happens at a funeral, but you can’t laugh in front of the family.”

"on the morning of his death, we cradled him in our palms and dug a pit as tiny as him for him to rest in our garden."

"the morning after you were put to sleep, you came to visit me in my dreams."

"but few yuletide stories are as bone chilling as that of krampus, the christmas devil. where there is light, there must be darkness."

“i am going to die today!” i screamed in joy.

"because the dishes still need to be done. because it's too dangerous not to stay grounded. because we cry."

"a black robed figure entered down to the altar. the congregation steadily chanted, “bah, bah, black sheep, have you any wool?"

"look for a letter: it’ll tell you a future truth in the past."

"we are nature. we just forget. we create societies and build houses and surround ourselves with backlit screens and flashing graphics."

a look back at the celebration of mexican day of the dead in 2018.

"it didn’t feel like good luck. nothing about this move felt good. this was going to be the first apartment that my Dad would not visit."