Stories

I’m standing next to the water dispenser, and I pick up a piece of paper sitting on the bottle. I flick it open, and I see a list of items. 1 African woman, 2 Paris, 1 four helping men, 1 three men carrying. It’s an invoice. I look at the paper and try to make…

I stood on the table before my classmates, who kept mocking as Mrs. George made a show of my rookie mistake. I was five and had worn my shoes the wrong way, left pair on right foot and right pair on left foot. It was a mistake that would have gone unnoticed except that day…