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Telisha Moore Leigg
March 27, 2018

Bitterroot

“Grief is memory’s ragged stillbirth.”Mandy Blue Eyes, AKA Anna-Margaret Corinth Ragslin, mother of Isabelle and Beau. Dear Papa, I am told in the winter of 1995 it snowed many times inches deep and then ice; branches were brittle, crystal fingers that smacked the house when the wind blew. For days, people were snowbound, nothing in... Read More
Fiction
March 22, 2018

Michael

After the second baby, Beau, Michael and I moved on 245 Aragon Lane to a small, two-bedroom, brick house painted white in Boris, North Carolina. It had a small garage that we didn’t really need. It wasn’t like it snowed or rained too much. The house was beautiful. Ivy grew high on the left side... Read More
Fiction
July 25, 2014

The Girl in the Sky-Blue Dress Part II

You go on back, ‘Rissie. I got this.” And I hadn’t called Clarisse that since years before the divorce. “Okay?” Clarisse said; she was puzzled but not worried. I reached under the chair and when I did get it–what the girl in the sky-blue dress left– I put it, wrapping cloth and all, in my... Read More
Fiction
June 10, 2014

The Magician

Long ago there was nothing but Moon and her old father, Sea. There was no land yet, just the ebb and flow of tides, and Moon lived below the water, not above. She was young, beautiful, and lonely. When Night came to court, Moon fell in love, became hand fasted in his dark robes, wrapped... Read More
Fiction
May 9, 2014

The Family Knox: Drowned

This monthly recurring story series tells of the loss and bittersweet redemption of the African-American Knox family, specifically Tim (father), Clarisse (mother), Laurel (daughter) and Matthew (son). Truth is folks want me to make pretty with my pain, but there is no getting rid of pain like I know. And if it were possible, well,... Read More
The Family Knox
March 8, 2014

The Family Knox: Old Trash Girl

This monthly recurring story series tells of the loss and bittersweet redemption of the African-American Knox family, specifically Tim (father), Clarisse (mother), Laurel (daughter) and Matthew (son).  Roxanne Lee thought an older boy would have known not to take a class ring from the dead boy’s body, but Lippie was so little, only seven then, and... Read More
The Family Knox
February 2, 2014

The Family Knox: Gate

This monthly story series tells of the loss and bittersweet redemption of the African-American Knox family, specifically Tim (father), Clarisse (mother), Laurel (daughter) and Matthew (son).  “We afeared that there ain’t enough, sisters and breathern. ‘Scared that ya’ won’t see ‘cause God the firefly in yo’ darkness and you be wanting mo’ light. Aw, chil’ren, in... Read More
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