Author Archives: Lamont

An exquisite yellow morning ascended onto Sacred Point Apartments. The Section-8 targeted habitat was once a clean and thriving community built on uplifting its neighbors confidence to get back on their feet, but the years turned and the new wave of residents’ reliance on the public assistance created a permanence never seen before. This newContinue reading “Demetrius’s Childhood”

(Painting by Michael Lang “Containing Chaos”)  The alarm clock screeches loud, waking Michael from the sleep of death as he stretches his long arms to smash the snooze button, to not wake his comatose girlfriend. He detaches the phone from the charger hooked into the wall and rolls over onto his back, permanently turning off the alarmContinue reading “Adds Up”