WATER LOGS

Who Dis [short story]

Summary: The question came from a boy named Zion, a teenager from Baltimore who’d never seen the ocean before. He typed it into his laptop while sitting on a folding...

Shifted Shadows [poem]

Summary: At night, the beach feels like a haunted house in nature; waves crash like whispers, sand moves under your feet, and seaweed wraps around your ankles like ghostly hands....

Lost Legends of the Sea: Black Caesar [essay]

Summary: This essay explores the life of Black Caesar, an African warrior turned pirate who ruled the Florida Keys in the early 1700s, and draws a powerful connection to the ongoing...

Colored Sands [poem]

they threw “colored” like a stone but we caught it, turned it into goldamber suns, copper skies,bronze roots deep as the tide underfoot, jewels in the sandpassed down hand to...

The Rise of AI: Afrocentric Illumination [essay]

Summary: In a world increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence, Afrocentric Illumination invites us to turn inward—trusting ancestral wisdom, protecting our humanity, and resisting digital erasure. While AI accelerates, we are...

Donald Krueger: The Nightmare on Main Street [e...

Summary: The beach was our introduction. Before streets had names, before cities swallowed the land whole, we met America at the water’s edge. The shore was not soft with welcome...