Moments of bliss seldom collide, but the instant a warm, sweet fritter went soft on his tongue, Hill noticed the painting — silver hair, blazing eye, skin the hearty brown of good bread — half shoved behind the door.

Kara Stewart (Sapony) is a Reading Specialist and Literacy Interventionist in the North Carolina Public Schools. Her photography, found at Kara Stewart, Art in Photography encompasses a broad range of styles from abstract to macro, and topics from Native to nature, rural to urban.

Cielito went to the Evangélicos on Mondays where she signed her name and showed her food bank ID.

She was joking, but I wondered if she’d heard about me, the dyke, the damned, the one who was once caught naked in a creekbed, a girl on my breath.

Photojournalist Ozier Muhammad has captured some of the most important political pinch points of our times, from South Africa’s first free elections in 1994, to Obama’s 2008 campaign.