by Elontra Hall | Oct 28, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
CONFIRMATION Aircon crickets through the night outside my parents’ bedroom since brother and I are not allowed AC given the dangers of cold air to children. I can’t sleep under my polyester blanket; wet back stuck to cotton sheets fused to a mattress...
by Elontra Hall | Oct 27, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Inheritance of Smoke We did not inherit land, only remnants of fields they burned— black fields scorched before we understood what it meant to sow. Fathers left us silence: not of cruelty, but some shattering fear. Growing up, we learned to decipher...
by Elontra Hall | Oct 26, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
I Don’t Remember Breakfast With You Maybe I remember getting brunch; or the time the dog ate my croissant; or when you fed me strawberries ironically in bed and we giggled with sugar on our lips. These breakfasts bubbled like new rivers. Now,...
by Elontra Hall | Oct 25, 2025 | Featured, Flash Fiction
The nightmare where I am back in middle school A speck of dust fights with glitter on the floor of my school’s gymnasium. A wrestling match rolling from corner to corner of the green linoleum, invisible to most. There is awkwardness in my legs,...
by Elontra Hall | Oct 24, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Remedial ‘Intended for school students who have not achieved the level of necessary attainment’ He couldn’t play rugby – the oval slithered away whenever he touched it and he fell in the mud or more often was pushed with some viciousness....
