“This is what being obsessed is: It is making a huge production in your mind.”
“We were confident we’d wake up into a business-as-usual capitalist democracy.”
“Omar and Cedric turned center stage into a two-man prog version of Soul Train.”
“She touched my hair with fingers fluent in love.”
“A child is a monster of survival before anything else.”
My ascent matched my mother’s descent.
“We need to try and secure our personal information now.”
When a hard line on intermarriage leads to exclusion.
An unexpected pregnancy, a birth, and a family reunion.