Sex — a short story

I really miss taking my daughter to the park to play. A couple of months ago, at her birthday party, she let me know that…

A Love Story In a Coffee Shop

It’s a Monday afternoon. She is sitting in a lone coffee shop. It’s her down time in between classes, and…

I remember the first time I had an injection at the doctors.

A child’s voice

The White Space in Poetry

In the beginning, in margins and in-between

One Hour — Short Story

John focused hard. He’d done one jump before, but it was always across the room to grab something. Or maybe across the…

Ink Black Eye

Sumire showed up for work with a black eye. I spotted it when I went to her desk to deliver a memory card containing the models she…

LAID BARE

Eno Addo is in an outfit that any scantily-dressed person would deem too provocative. With her enormous globe-sized buttocks, it is a dress…

Lit Up: Submission Guidelines

New and Improved

Welcome to Lit Up — The Land of Little…

Sex Ed

The boys never did what I told them right. Mom had locked us in the bedroom for naptime, even though none of us were sleepy. It wasn’t fair. I…

The Art of Characterization

An essay on extending the pitch of human possibility