All Stories, Fantasy

Epilogue by Jeremy Bader

The guy standing in the middle of the road is a writer, and he’s getting away with it too.

He can get away with it because he has been published but not self-published, and also because there’s no longer anybody around to give much of a shit anyway.

He’s also, to a comparable degree, getting away with standing in the middle of the road.

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All Stories, General Fiction

Clovis Clayton Holiday by Frederick K Foote

My mother told me, “Clovis Clayton Holiday, you gonna be the death of me with the way you do the things you do.”

My father instructed me, “Clovis, son, sometimes you have to go along to get along, you understand?”

My older sister, Nora, scolded me, “Clo, Negro, you can’t just go and do anything you want to do. You got to follow the rules.”

Nelda, my younger sister, declared, “Clo, You, too weird to be my brother. I disown your Black ass.”

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