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Horseback Riding While Black

When I was nine, I BEGGED my parents to let me attend horse camp. Because, when I was a kid, I was obsessed with magical worlds where...

Ode to Octavia

Octavia Butler is one of my writing heroes. Before her books, I don’t know that I’d ever read a science fiction series that consumed all...

Prin and the House That Flies

After a Once Upon a time and a Happily Ever After, Prin was born to Queens Mikaylah and Cala in a beautiful, peaceful land. The kingdom...

Teenage Poet

As I write YA and Middle Grade stories, I try to remember how I felt then and go back to the records I kept of my younger self. I had no...

Moonlight Stained

Mercury. A god is falling from molecules of nitrogen, oxygen, argon, and carbon dioxide. This particular god is particularly pictured...

The Truth About Hair

This piece is a throwback to 2014 when I was struggling to come to terms with my hair and wrote this long mixed-media piece called "The...

Found Object: Dream Diary

How do you find your best ideas? One of the ways I find my stories is through lucid dreams right before I wake up. In and out of...