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Out There Screaming is a thoughtful collection of psychological horror and speculative fiction that examines the expectations of the world on Black bodies.
Write about someone or something in your life that is "evergreen."
I took Three-Dimensional Design again, three years later. Then, I was older than my classmates, and I knew why I was there...
This month's prompt is about using the imagery and symbolism of tarot to develop a scene about the “black sheep” of a family.
Try an exercise to develop both scene and summary and connect past with present and future.
Who or what could make you risk it all?
Capture the sensory experience of a favorite back-to-school or classroom memory.
August's prompt is about using the imagery of tarot and the remembered elements of dreams to create story scenes.
The air was enchanted, electrified with what I can only call the love that moved between the four of us, who had experienced something so other than the war, of such a different order than a world of folly...
Isabel Cañas is a Mexican American writer and author of Vampires of El Norte, a historical fantasy with a speculative take on vampires.