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”

North, South, East & West

Peoples of America are nothing like the actors and actresses portrayed on the silver screen. People of America are nothing like the stories written in novels or novellas. Reality tv in America isn’t real at all. The price of the deceptions and lies is the full driving the vile spirit of discontent found in theContinueContinue reading “North, South, East & West”