alex terrell (she/her) is a Black Southern writer and maker of worlds. She is a recipient of the 2018 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. Her work has appeared in Black Warrior Review, The Offing, Puerto del Sol, BAX 2020: Best American Experimental Writing, and elsewhere. For more info on terrell and her writing, visit her website at alexterrell.com.
Fiction
Black Estrangement
We Think of Our Mothers like Trees
“” Toby reads the headline like he’s a news anchor. He rattles the paper at us, and I wonder for the second time tonight why he is in my house. […]