Write Volumes Shades Of anthologies.
Official bio Write Volumes is a group of eclectic writers who are passionate about viewing the world through varying perspectives, ideas, and thoughts. Writing is a way to understand, inspire, and transform ourselves and possibly others which we can try to do in volumes—in the sense of decibels or quantity. Please join us in engaging the world through reading and writing. Together we are and can Write Volumes.
The Shades Of anthologies were first published digitally. Volumes 1, 3 and 4 are now available in paperback.
Official bio Write Volumes is a group of eclectic writers who are passionate about viewing the world through varying perspectives, ideas, and thoughts. Writing is a way to understand, inspire, and transform ourselves and possibly others which we can try to do in volumes—in the sense of decibels or quantity. Please join us in engaging the world through reading and writing. Together we are and can Write Volumes.
The Shades Of anthologies were first published digitally. Volumes 1, 3 and 4 are now available in paperback.
All is Nothing
SHADES OF CHAOS
For the latest collection - the seventh! - I wrote a harrowing short story about a car crash.
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Love is eternal
Ever After
SHADES OF TIMELESS LOVE
American history and current events collide in my short story for the sixth anthology of the Write Volumes series, published, aptly enough, just before Valentine's Day.
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It's dinnertime
Dinner Parties
SHADES OF HORRIFIC HUMOR
I wrote about an incendiary short story about a last will and testament for the latest anthology.
I don't often tell the truth, I prefer to talk in textured shades of truth. These are denser than reality, five- or even six-dimensional. I flit in between the gray, escaping the humdrum tension of three-dimensional expression. When I am at my most entertaining, I make up stuff. I am great at cocktail parties, reeling in the unsuspecting observer with my wild tales. They don't deserve a front seat in my life.
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Masked sibs
Covid: Covert No More
SHADES OF POSITIVELY PANDEMIC
I wrote a poem about my lockdown experience for Write Volume's fourth digital anthology, published July 2021.
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Covid: Covert No More
SHADES OF POSITIVELY PANDEMIC
I wrote a poem about my lockdown experience for Write Volume's fourth digital anthology, published July 2021.
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My photo of the Bean
Floating Like Butterflies
SHADES OF CHICAGO
I had arrived the day before, on Halloween, on a whim. Six days earlier, on the eve of my birthday, Chicago Man, a love who had floated in and out of my life, teased an invitation. “You always say I never give you anything,” he said. “Why don’t you come stay with me for a few months?” It was a surprisingly reasonable offer coming from a man I had long ago determined maddeningly unreasonable much of the time.
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Mommy
Mommy, Still
SHADES OF TRANSITION AND TRANSFORMATION
I have always believed in God. Every night from the time I could speak, I knelt beside my bed, lowered my head into clasped hands and prayed to Our Father Who Art in Heaven, thanking Him for all that I had and all that I was and all that I was going to be. I have always known that there is more to life than what my five senses could perceive. Before I did not have the words to address it or the awareness to fully understand it. Now I do.
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Harriet the Great
Harriet and Me: A Distillation Through the Ages
SHADES OF TRANSITION AND TRANSFORMATION
I respond to Araminta when I want to remember the seed
I answer to Harriet when I want to remember the tree
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Oddities
Shades of Love
SHADES OF HORROR AND STRANGENESS
She appeared as a vision. He resisted the urge to rub his eyes to make sure that what he was seeing was real. He couldn't chance that she would appear. Perhaps she was a mirage—a conglomeration of swirls pooling like mercury in a puddle of gasoline, or the rainbow that springs upon a clean, white wall when you least expect it. You can trace its origins to sunlight hitting the ceiling fan or the candleholder on a coffee table, and yet its emergence feels somehow mysterious.
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Write Volumes videos.
Celebrating Writers Black History Month Presents In this five-minute video, I answer the following:
1. Did any Black writers influence you and your writing?
2, What does it mean to be a Black writer?
3. How would you like your writing to influence future generations?
1. Did any Black writers influence you and your writing?
2, What does it mean to be a Black writer?
3. How would you like your writing to influence future generations?
Shades of Writers: 8 at 8 Author Interview Write Volumes' co-editor Genea Tafesse and I discuss life, death, grief, mothers, secrets, inspiration, Harriet Tubman, writing & more. Bring tissue and be prepared to laugh, too.
One Question Video Series: A panel of writers + one question See how it affects them, their writing, and readers From the role of writers in society to how readers perceive stories Let’s listen, let’s think, let’s feel, let’s ask, let’s share, let’s talk. Today’s one question: Who is your favorite writer or book in a community you identify with and what is it that captured your attention?
My pick? People Who Led to My Plays by black avant-garde playwright Adrienne Kennedy whom I've interviewed.
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