Amber McBride

Amber McBride is the author of Me (Moth). Her work has been published in Ploughshares and Provincetown Arts, among other publications. “Not Even a Nina Simone Hymn Can Perform Magic Tricks” is from Thick with Trouble, published by Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin
Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC.

Not Even a Nina Simone Hymn Can Perform Magic Tricks

Amber McBride

January 8, 2024

Issue no. 72

Tires brake on a velvet road so there is not a screech, but rather a rustle like fall leaves humping. A body flies through waterfall windows, so there is no shattering just splattering & a soft land that hardly knocks the wind from caged lungs. When it is all said & ...