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  • A Misguided Solution 2. An Education – Miss Education continued 

    Esther told Tamarvan  everything the police had told her and he stood in the living room of his home in shock that his friend was missing; Yusef who got the paper for Mrs. Jenkins every morning because she used a walker in her old age, and who would volunteer as a tutor at the community…

  • The Deft Hands of Zacchaeus (2022 Annual) – Issue 1 – 

    The Master vs the Deft Hands  “Why would he do that?” Gregory asked. He was hunched over his knees, staring at the portal Wazad had woven into the space between the two of them that broadcast the scene of a man named Zacchaeus with a smoking, black hooded cloak as he opened a portal big…

  • A Misguided Solution 2. An Education – Miss Education 

    He had no way of knowing that Yusef was being beaten in a vacant lot on a rural South Carolina road. Tamarvan was miles away at a football game taking pictures with the camera he had chosen for the school’s yearbook staff as the editor. Tamarvan could often be seen at school functions, blending into…

  • A Misguided Solution 2. An Education 

    As our first visit together wound down to the end, I wondered if I should tell Tamarvan Barnes the truth. He’d made it clear that he’d only agreed to speak with me because I had mentioned VIV, but I hadn’t told him that I didn’t actually know VIV. Or Viv as I had presumed she…

  • Coming Back (James Black, SZA) – Shuffle – Playlist 2

    “Why do you do things that I hate?” “I don’t do them to make you mad, I’m just trying to keep sane.” “You do understand that the things I hate are the things that hurt you? I hate to see you in pain.” “I know, but some things that you think look painful, aren’t so…

  • A Misguided Solution 1. Dog Stories – A Home of Love and Death

    The courtship of Calvin and Esther is among the greatest love stories ever told of the Bottoms. The two were inseparable and some say that Esther’s influence tempered Calvin’s more aggressive impulses. Others say that Calvin enhanced the aggressive aspects of Esther, who had been known as a very genial girl, but who became an…

  • My Church (Maren Morris) – Shuffle – Playlist 2

    “I don’t understand,” the man said, obviously confused and his forehead bunched over his eyebrows in confusion, his dark brown eyes narrowed with skepticism, “where does it lead to?”  “To your fulfillment, your bliss.”  The man stared at the wide, metallic staircase that was in the middle of the vast field and narrowed as it…

  • A Misguided Solution 1. Dog Stories – The Unbeatable Esther Mae

    Esther Mae Stevens started working at a young age, though she wasn’t even aware of the job. She was assistant manager of Kid Watch, a day care that her neighbor had started in her apartment after she was laid-off at the textile factory that would eventually close and put many people out of work. At…

  • A Misguided Solution 1. Dog Stories – Calvin’s First Dog

    Growing up, Calvin James Barnes had a dog named Spike that his family tied to a tree and fed leftovers and scraps from their dinner every night.  When Calvin was eight years old in Ladoga, NC where he grew up, a hurricane blew through his neighborhood. He had never heard winds make so much noise…

  • A Misguided Solution 1. Dog Stories

    “Would you like to know my earliest memory? You’re interested in my perspective and my memories can give you insight. I was at that house, the one on N— street in the Bottoms where there used to be a convenience store. I was at that house, in the front yard and it must have been…