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August, 2011 Louis Dumkowski wasn’t the smartest kid in his class; he couldn’t be said, in fact, to be the smartest person in any crowd. But, when he was with his friend Cleatus Washington, and when their silent partner, Vinnie “The Enforcer” Williams, wasn’t around, he occasionally surprised himself and everyone around by making Continue reading Sour Note April was Louis Dumkowski’s favorite month.
Editors’ Choice Award It hadn’t always been so; in fact, he’d never had a favorite month before. There were months he didn’t like. January, for instance, because he always started it with a horrible hangover from some New Year’s Eve party, cold and shivering on someone’s bathroom Continue reading A Young Man’s Fancy Louis Dumkowski and his friend Cleatus Washington had settled well into their new roles, helping the needy in their community make ends meet with low-interest loans instead of the previously usurious loan shark deals they’d made under the tutelage of their once boss and now partner, Vinnie “The Enforcer” Williams. Vinnie, who was enjoying his new-found Continue reading Pole Position Louis Dumkowski had never been in New Orleans before, in fact, the only time he’d been more than a hundred miles south of Detroit was when he fled to his aunt’s farm in east Texas to avoid Vincent ‘the Enforcer’ Williams, who had been trying to put small holes in his body because Louis had Continue reading The Wrecking Crew He was a December baby; born on the thirteenth, which coincidentally happened to be Friday in the year of his birth. From the very start, his mother called him her little prince, which very quickly became simply Prince, and everyone called him that. By July of his fifth year, just before he Continue reading Prince and the Preacher Louis Dumkowski and his friend, Cleatus Washington, were at a point of decision in their lives. One could even say that they were suffering a crisis of conscience. Well, one could say that Cleatus was suffering a crisis; Louis’s conscience was small to begin with, and the amazingly Continue reading Outside Parcel Goodluck Mezembe was a merchant. He owned a little shop on on the highway between Bulawayo and Victoria Falls, from which he sold soft drinks, local beer, bread, and other sundries to the people who lived in the small villages in the area. A member of the Shona tribe from Zimbabwe’s eastern Mashonaland Continue reading His Brother’s Keeper
Editors’ Choice Award “This is really the life, bro,” Louis Dumkowski said to his friend Cleatus Washington. “We been making more money than I ever seen in my whole life, and the work hours are the best.” “Yeah,” Cleatus said. “I guess it ain’t bad at that. What we got next on the Continue reading Care Package Nkose and his friend, Nyati, were tired. The sun was high in the sky and beat down upon them without mercy. Their ebony bodies, slender but well-muscled from years of hunting in the rolling hills and plains, were covered in a sheen of sweat, and their thighs and calves ached from the exertion Continue reading Hunters of the Thundering Mist |
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