Episode 88: To Live and Die in Dixieland by Russell Nichols
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Russell Nichols
Russell Nichols is a speculative fiction writer and endangered journalist. Raised in Richmond, CA, he sold all his stuff in 2011 and now lives out of a backpack with his wife, vagabonding around the world. Find his work in Fiyah, Apex Magazine, Fireside Fiction, Strange Horizons, Nightmare Magazine's POC Destroy Horror special issue, and others. Look for him at https://russellnichols.com.
To Live and Die in Dixieland
The subtext stings with a scary familiarity: how he longs to be seen, how he justifies his loneliness, how he conflates abuse with affection, as Kamara had done time and time again with past boyfriends—and would be still if her therapist didn’t guide her to a path of self-worth.
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Jesus Christ is dropping f-bombs again.
Blood on Beacon Hill
The black boy on trial smells the blood. That sweet, sweet hemoglobin, boiling now under the blushed skins of the dying race. He can smell mousse, too, and putrid sweat. He can’t smell the eyes of this mob of mortals in the courtroom, but he feels them, stabbing like so many wooden stakes into his fifteen-year-old back.