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Embers to Embers by Coletha Albert

They were unknown in their large metropolitan city as Ariel and Joshua, a boisterously quiet couple who kept mostly to themselves now. They began as two lost souls on the garbage pile of the unwanted. She showed him how to get high and he liked it. She had always been high and did not knowContinueContinue reading “Embers to Embers by Coletha Albert”

Ms. Clara’s Family by Coletha Albert

The floorboards of the abandoned parish in Oakhaven still bore the black enamel scorch marks from fifty years ago. That night, six men in gray robes had locked ten-year-old Clara in the center of the subterranean chamber. They burned salt and dried nightshade, chanting long, guttural incantations to drag something cruel up through the earthContinueContinue reading “Ms. Clara’s Family by Coletha Albert”

My Almighty God did not Fail

youtube.com/watch #NaomiRaine I lift up my Sister right now in the name of Yeshua of Nazareth’s name. #ChandlerMoore I lift up my Brother right now in the name of Yeshua of Nazareth’s name. I am sending waters for your soul and your spirit. When I was in the dessert, Yeshua gave me your gifts fromContinueContinue reading “My Almighty God did not Fail”

Aisha, Short Story by Coletha Albert

“Aisha, remember that the most beautiful flowers grow in the wildest of gardens,” my grandmother once told me. “But they have to survive the thorns first.” Her words felt like a distant echo, like a prophecy I was desperately trying to rewrite. Growing up as a Black American female was an intricate dance of survival.ContinueContinue reading “Aisha, Short Story by Coletha Albert”

Twilight by Coletha Albert

There is a time Yours and mine Where light becomes dark And dark evaporates into light That’s you and I There are those in another life Who need the dark to survive Let those sleeping dogs stay sleep.   Photo by Joost van Os on Pexels.com Photo by Ivan Cujic on Pexels.com Photo by WilliansContinueContinue reading “Twilight by Coletha Albert”