One Throne Magazine

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The Best Short Story I Read in a Lit Mag This Week: “Bethlehem” by Chika Unigwe

ByRoss McMeekin

In “Bethlehem” (One Throne Magazine), Chika Unigwe explores the ways in which a community’s sources of pride and ignorance can cause tragedy in the lives of those who don’t fit into the conventional molds. In the first section, Unigwe presents clues to the conflict between the protagonist Chimelumma and her infant Beth (short for Bethlehem)….

The Best Poem I Read This Month: Cortney Lamar Charleston’s “I’m Not a Racist”
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The Best Poem I Read This Month: Cortney Lamar Charleston’s “I’m Not a Racist”

ByJohn Rufo

Cortney Lamar Charleston’s “I’m Not a Racist,” published in One Throne Magazine, is an all-too-relevant rendering of “fair and balanced” evil. The poem, organized in couplets and single-standing lines, presents a mash-up of thoughts from a speaker who claims “I’m not a racist / I’m a realist,” in order to uproot the twisted anti-logic that…