chooseyourown

Choose Your Own: Section O

by Black Warrior Review | Jan 3, 2018 | Choose Your Own

Section O Oren is a big man, a fisherman with women tattooed up and down his arms. He is captain of the M42 and doesn’t trust his boatswain, though the boatswain is his own father. His father is a notorious gambler, like your true love, and maybe this is why you’re so...

Choose Your Own: Section E

by Black Warrior Review | Jan 3, 2018 | Choose Your Own

Section E The youngest one is knocking on your bedroom door. She wants something to eat. You hear one of the other girls shouting that she can make her own food, what’s the big deal? But still the little one persists. Please, Mama, she says, a lisp in her s. You make...

Choose Your Own: Section I

by Black Warrior Review | Jan 3, 2018 | Choose Your Own

Section I There he is in the kitchen, the man Oren pressing your most beautiful daughter against the counter. You can see her face reflected in the window, a mixture of you and your true love, and what breaks your heart the most is how much you miss that man, her...

44.1 Feature: CHOOSE YOUR OWN by Debbie Vance

by Black Warrior Review | Jan 3, 2018 | Feature, Fiction Print

Debbie Vance’s fiction has appeared in Crazyhorse, Blue Mesa Review, Flyway, Alligator Juniper, and elsewhere. She is an MFA candidate at Colorado State University, where she teaches writing, and is at work on a collection of linked stories. Section A You are...

Choose Your Own: Section M

by Black Warrior Review | Jan 3, 2018 | Choose Your Own

Section M The neighbors are asleep, but their living room lights are still on. Some of them have even left their curtains open and you can see the miniature ships on the mantle, their masts and sails. You can see the tiny Leviathans threatening to capsize them, and...