31 Days of Stories 2020, Day 31: “Home” by Langston Hughes
First published in 1934, Langston Hughes’s story throws a spotlight on racial violence that continues in America today.
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First published in 1934, Langston Hughes’s story throws a spotlight on racial violence that continues in America today.
Zadie Smith’s controversial story is a dystopian satire about call-out culture.
Nancy Hale’s story about the dangers of poisonous political ideologies is surprisingly relevant to our current moment.
Bryan Washington’s story is about a veteran drug dealer who becomes a kind of surrogate father to an undocumented Guatemalan teen.
Elise Levine, sui generis.
Binyavanga Wainaina’s story is about the performative cultural roles people are expected to play.
Adrian Michael Kelly uses a train ride as a means to examine a character who is much less upright than he at first appears.
Ray Russell’s 1961 modern Gothic tale has lost none of its power to shock its reader.
Tyler Keevil’s brief two-hander is a parable about what it takes to be an artist.
Chavisa Woods’s expressionistic story is about feeling like an outcast in the place you were born.