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Cool issue, my favorite story was "Your Name is Oblivia" by Vincent Tirado.
Red Cloth, White Giraffe - Yvette Lisa Ndlovu ****The Last Testament - Aurelius Raines II ***The Black Menagerie - Endria Isa Richardson *****Your Name Is Oblivia - Vincent Tirado ****
What a well-rounded issue.The selection is top-notch, both in short stories and in poems, channeling the anger provoked not only by recent events, but beyond our memories.I loved the poem by Maya C. James, full of anger against what's imposed. The other two, by Uche Ogbuji and Soonest Nathaniel boast a cadence that makes you wonder how would they recite them in a potery jam.The four short stories are great, Yvette Lisa Ndlovu's is a little bit like Pixar's Coco without the sugar coating and with...
This had some great stories! I particularly liked "Red Cloth, White Giraffe" by Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, which is all about a woman fed up with her patriarchal society & their death practices. I also adored "Your Name is Oblivia" by Vincent Tirado, which had such a cool atmosphere and explored themes of memory and loss. I didn't really get the poetry in this issue so much, though!
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The shorts were outstanding this month; I wasn’t feeling the poetry as much.