Author: fatima

It started just before sunrise. A couple in their seventies called the local police, their voices trembling with confusion and fear. The woman spoke first,

When Vanessa Harper looked me in the eye and said, “We don’t need old men like you dragging us down,” she thought she was issuing

I’m seventy-eight, and for the last four Thanksgivings, I’ve eaten dinner alone at the same table where my son used to carve the turkey and

At work, there was this quiet guy named Paul. You know the type — the one who slips through the office without drawing attention, always

Friday should’ve felt like a victory. Payday. A moment to breathe. Instead, I was dragging myself out of the supermarket with grocery bags biting into

I don’t usually stop for drama in grocery stores. Most days, I’m too tired to care about anything except what’s on sale and how far

The day after I buried my parents, childhood ended for me. Not because I turned eighteen, but because someone tried to rip away the only

I’m sixty-three years old, a biker built like a refrigerator with tattoos creeping up my arms and scars that could tell their own stories. I’ve

I’m seventy-three years old, lying in a hospice bed with stage-four lung cancer, and for six long months not one of my three children has

“‘Tieler you ain’t shit. Everyone will realize you’re full of shit.’ These were my mom’s final words to me as she kicked me out of