The heat in Ballard didn’t shimmer; it throbbed. It was July 2026, and the “Big Blue” tent city near the library was a kiln of nylon and asphalt. Elias and Kael sat on a stained mattress, the air smelling of saltwater and hot garbage. They hadn’t slept in four days. The new batch—something whispered aboutContinueContinue reading “Kael and Elias’s Seattle by Coletha Albert”
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South Park’s Shula by Coletha Albert
The year was 1978, and the South Park neighborhood of Houston was a humid haze of AM radio hits and the heavy, sweet scent of honeysuckle fighting against the exhaust of passing Cadillac Sevilles and Chrysler Cordobas. Photo by Arian Fernandez on Pexels.com Shula didn’t wear a veil; she wore high-waisted bell-bottoms, an orange halterContinueContinue reading “South Park’s Shula by Coletha Albert”
Everybody MAD
Everybody MadSong byO.T. GenasisYeahThey ain’t gon’ like itThey ain’t gon’ like itI be getting to the moneyEverybody madI think I’m getting too much moneyEverybody madThe same old nigga from the blockThe same old nigga with the potThe same old nigga for the trapEverybody hated on him then he bounced right backI done spent a wholeContinueContinue reading “Everybody MAD”
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“Life IS scary. Keep living anyway. You are not alone.” – Coletha Yvette Albert
The Madness on Netflix
(Wonderland) This morning I woke up in Wonderland. I had been trying to deny this for a year but at last Wonderland is truly all around me. Now that I am about to leave Wonderland has exposed herself fully to me. I ate a bowl of cherries from Sam’s Club and sat down to checkContinueContinue reading “The Madness on Netflix”
