Author: thachhtv

“This is not a public access decision,” she said. “Consider it a private professional courtesy.” She unwrapped the volume. A manuscript copy of sections from…

Part 1 The chair had no right to be as solid as it was. My grandmother kept it by the front window of her house…

Part 1 The first thing they ask for is your address. At the hospital, when you are bleeding. At the bank, when you are already…

On the floor just inside the threshold lay the fifth letter. Part 4 He did not open the fifth letter for nearly an hour. Instead…

Part 1 Rain was running down the windows of Dr. James Okafor’s office in long gray threads when Diane Walker came in carrying the photograph…

Carter. Not proof of an original surname, but a chosen or acquired one after emancipation. Enough to begin searching church registries and burial records. The…

Part 1 The box had been wrapped in newspaper so old it gave off a dry, faintly sweet smell when Dr. James Mitchell cut the…

“That we were taught to think of documentation as something institutions bestow,” she said. “Birth certificates, deeds, licenses, state seals. As though identity only becomes…

Part 1 The Whitmore house had been shut so long that the front door opened like it resented daylight. Rebecca Martinez stood on the cracked…