A Just Recompense

Uche Okeke, Owls, From the Oja Suite, 1962, ink on paper The first time I ever saw an owl was in the backyard of our childhood home in Enugu.

Because no tools can be carried on the plane, I buy them at the Home Depot near his apartment and sneak into my father’s building through the Service Only entrance.

THR illustration: a reference desk in a Michigan library, 1980s, AADL.org.

Illustration of a table-turning séance from Félix Roubaud’s 1853 text, Les Danse des Tables Whenever Susan Bridge heard friends or family talk of inklings from the other side, or of being watched over by a lost loved one, she inwardly dismissed the idea e…

Photo by Sam Chase, U.S.

Back then, everybody smoked.

It was Chang-ma who corralled the women of the First Mandarin Baptist Church of Praise into their midweek meetings.

Lauren Strohacker: Coyote Anthropophony But it begins with moths.

Their UK visas were all of five hours old when Sonya’s husband, Alexei, looked up from the computer and announced they would never escape Russia.

There is a message on Voyager 1 and 2, space probes that have been sailing away from the planet Earth for almost 50 years.