American Dilemmas
A work of fiction where a family, embattled in a game of chance, deliberates a greater game of chance, one carrying with it the ultimate…
Frederick Foote
The Agreement
“You jumped from slavery to Jim Crow, sharecropping and convict labor to segregation, redlining, and mass incarceration.” A work of fiction revealing of the wicked…
Luna and Ala
When confronted by a malevolent creature composed of gossamer light, a protective father ultimately becomes the one in need of safeguarding, by an unassuming hero……
Kat
A work of fiction echoing real life where a veteran, weaponless yet at war at home, comes upon the quintessential partner in change… by: Frederick…
Mortar Prayers
“Nobody pays attention to my bad dream, my outburst. Everybody’s tending their own crop of horrors.” A short work of fiction that acts a reminder of…
Best of Across The Margin 2019, Nonfiction
As 2019 comes to its close, Across the Margin takes a look back at some of its most treasured moments in Nonfiction… Throughout this final…
Running Out Of Time
A lethal goddess, a savage beast, and a band of unsuspecting passerby converge, to chilling results… by: Frederick Foote I grew up in the South, in…
Weight
“My, my, you were starting some mess up in there.” An offering of flash fiction featuring a precocious, socially conscious child who bravely challenges the…
A Reparations Primer
A reparations primer, one that aims to plainly lay out why reparations to African American descendants of those enslaved in the past are necessary, and what,…
The Myth of American Unity
An examination of the role myth plays in shaping the way in which America views itself… by: Frederick Foote The United States appears to be…
A Modest Proposal
Something HAS to be done, but what? A modest, pragmatic proposal for gun control. by: Frederick Foote The position is inarguable, guns are a public…
A Visitation
by: Frederick Foote When the past comes back to stalk the present — a short story about a veteran confronted by the horrors of his…