Meditating on what it means to dream those kinds of dreams that feel impossible
to realize
Meditating on how to fashion those dreams while working to change
the future
Wondering what it means to begin
to see
hopes and prayers and wishes for yourself
that you never knew you wanted
especially by the time you’ve reached the end The Words Between Us Revision Workshop space
Audaciously:
A provocative, honest, and visceral debut collection exploring the beauty, joy, and nuance of moving through the world as a Black female.
All Water Has Perfect Memory interrogates the very human experiences and relationships between secrets, motherhood, memories, sisterhood, lies, friendship, sexual awakening, truth, intergenerational knowledge, time, marriage, and ancestral connections.
A young girl experiences the consequences (good and bad) of what lying can get you. A family reunion takes a dark and funny turn as everyone tries to spill other people’s secrets while forgetting about their own. On the eve of her wedding, a woman revisits all of the times she’s broken up with people (in writing, of course). Two sisters and their cousin have planned the ultimate drama-free weekend getaway only to have it fall apart over a game of Jenga. A high school senior reflects on the many lessons about identity, love, and theatre she has learned at her mostly-white boarding school. And across a series of stories, a daughter on the precipice of motherhood finds a box of her own mother’s writing, hoping it provides a key to the woman she has never known well and that those words can help her own journey.
Teeming with honesty and wry humor, and never neatly resolved, this heartfelt and eclectic collection of stories explores how time can shift memories, how powerful relationships shape us, and what it means to hold onto secrets long after they should be released.
