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Ra'Niqua Lee

Ra'Niqua Lee is a 2024 NEA fiction fellow, and she writes to share her particular visions of love and the South. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Cream City Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, Indiana Review, Passages North, and elsewhere. Every word is in honor of her little sister, Nesha, who battled schizoaffective disorder until the very end. For her always.

Mary by Another Name

Ra'Niqua Lee

Muddy footprints trailed Lottie on her way back to the porch. All that morning, rain fell, and wind played rough in the trees. Only now did glimmers of sunlight spill through crosshatches of oak branches. The air was sweet with damp grass as Lottie settled onto her front steps. Thin elbows propped behind, she watched […]

Hyphemata, or Seeing Underwater Above

Ra'Niqua Lee

I told my love to meet me inside of a pearl Chevy, backseat amputated from the body of a 1955 Bel Air. A bench and lunch table sit in place of the front half. Lights line walls slick with fry grease as thick as sinking. ** In between town and nowhere, this super-niche restaurant with […]

Infinity Bound

Ra'Niqua Lee

First Place Winner of Voyage’s Best Chapters Contest judged by NYT Bestselling Author Soman Chainani . CHAPTER ONE It started at the incense shop, or before then, or after. I forget. School let out for winter break the week before. Atlanta was frost-bitten like the alley strays Ms. Angie fed after closing time, like I […]