I’ve always had a thing for tricksters, pranksters, and spirits with an occasional cruel streak in my fiction. I got… Read more “Finding My Own Writing Path Amongst Tricksters” by Zina Hutton

I rest Mags down on the lavender grass and kneel beside she. My hands cover with blood, dark and hot.… Read more “The Bois” by R.S.A. Garcia

“You betta not cheat on Soupie no more. She gon’ sen’ the hag for you.” “I’m not cheating on Stacey,”… Read more “Soupie’s Lover” by Eden Royce

There was once in Little Senegal, on 116th street and Malcolm X Boulevard, between a Bengali dollar slice joint and a… Read more “A Contest of Farts The Ballad of Faransoye Biram Ngor” by Mame Bougouma Diene

To make wine in a country of beer drinkers is to birth a planet in a solar system with no… Read more “There are Children that Flower the Trees” by V.H. Galloway

Welcome to the special #ownvoices issue of Truancy, curated by guest editors Troy L. Wiggins and Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali. Truancy has… Read more Editorial: Issue Four of Truancy (Guest-Edited), June 2017

Table of Contents Editorial by Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali and Troy L. Wiggins Fiction “There Are Children That Flower The Trees” by V.… Read more Issue 4, June 2017 of Truancy