Kateb-Nuri-Alim

Author’s Opening Note Let’s sit down and talk for a minute, yeah? Really sit. Not the half-listening, phone-in-hand kind of sitting. I need you present mind, heart, the quiet spot in your chest that don’t get talked to much. We got some things to chew on, some things you might not want to hear, and some things that might just make you laugh when the world’s been too heavy. I ain’t here pretending I got it all figured out. Nah, I been stumbling, watching, learning from moments that hit deep,...

The Mirror Don’t Blink A Story About What Follows You When Nobody Else Does By Kāteb Shunnar Author’s Opening Note Let me say this now before we get too deep in it, before you get comfortable, before you lean back thinking this just another piece you can nod your head to and keep it moving. This one might sit a little different on you. Not because I am trying to scare you. Not because I am trying to preach at you like somebody auntie after two glasses of sweet red wine and a Bible verse she...

Author’s Opening Note Let me go on and say this before we even step into this thing together. Some of yall not gonna like what you about to read. And that is alright. I did not write this to make you comfortable. I wrote this because something in my spirit would not let me sit quiet and sip sweet tea like everything out here moving right. It is not. And deep down you already know that. See, we real good at pointing fingers. Real good. Olympic level with it. We can find fault in a stranger...