I am excited about two recent publications!
Of Matches & Men (fiction)
My short story (4,500 words) was published in Issue 5 of Words Apart, a social-justice themed publication from Emerson College.
Thursday, April 4, 1968. 7:05 p.m.
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is shot in the neck as he stands on the balcony of Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
Thursday, April 4, 1968. 10:56 p.m. U Street, NW, Washington, DC.
A man standing in front of a drug store balls up a wad of paper.
He lights a match to the paper.
He throws it inside.
Thirty years later the fire was still burning and crackling through the air.
For Ángela, the young mother of an 11-year old boy, her only wish is to protect her son from that raging fire.
Untitled (queen) (poetry)
I published a poem in the fall issue of BlazeVOX.
Yippee! Read it here.
Willona M. Sloan 