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Two women holding hands on a street with ice cream

Ice Cream Land

Featured • Fiction

Olivia Oswald

As I listened to her I looked around. The other people on the street all seemed to be looking at us, and their expressions were full of menace.

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about Lollipop, Lollipop
Featured • Fiction • Nonfiction
Lollipop, Lollipop
E.H.C.
The figure moved slowly, deliberately, its shrouded head turning towards Josh. Those eyes—sharp and frigid as icepicks—stared at him. The man’s black lips never moved, even as a word pierced him like a yell: “Beware.”
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about Toubab! Toubab!
Nonfiction
Toubab! Toubab!
Patricia Smith
“Toubab, ça va? Toubab, ça va?” Small, black bodies crowd around me. Their arms are outstretched, palms face up. I…
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about A Goodbye Letter
Featured
A Goodbye Letter
Jo Unruh
Dear NiftyLit Community, It is with a heavy heart that I’m writing to let you know that I will be…
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about Always Gardening
Featured • Poetry
Always Gardening
Judith Skillman
"I plan my fingers against one against the other / on the ebony board..."
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about Flash Memoir from Kimberly Hayes
Flash • Nonfiction
Flash Memoir from Kimberly Hayes
Kimberly Hayes
My mom was in bed, tossing and turning, in that half-dreaming, half-awakened state. Reading something hadn’t helped, nor had taking her sleeping pill. She hadn’t expected the bell to ring.
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