Author’s Note – Another vignette from my Yoruba pantheon-inspired project (if you missed out on previous vignettes, check them out - The First Journey, The Seven Cycles of Peace & The Emancipation of Mia!) Time had no meaning here. When she had been banished to the lands of infinite silence, she had not pictured each moment… Continue reading THE VILLAINY OF YEWA
Author’s Note – Another vignette from my Yoruba pantheon-inspired project (if you missed out on previous vignettes, The First Journey and The Seven Cycles of Peace, click here and here)! "HOLY GHOST... FIRE! HOLY GHOST... FIRE!!" From the floor where she had been forced to kneel for nearly an hour, Mia's eyes were fixed ahead, her… Continue reading THE EMANCIPATION OF MIA
Author’s Note – I shared way back when that I've been (still very slowly) working on a project inspired by the Yoruba pantheon and creating vignettes to help with my world-building. Here's another one of those! If you missed the first one, The First Journey, click here. She was born gazing up into her parents’ eyes.… Continue reading THE SEVEN CYCLES OF PEACE
How do you ignite a flame on a wet wick? How do you paint a world of color with invisible ink? How do you open up new worlds of imagination to eyes screwed shut? How do you sing the songs of Solomon to ears deaf to all but white noise? How do you match the… Continue reading Après le déluge, le soleil
The characters, events, and situations depicted in this story are purely fictional. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or events is purely coincidental. This story is a work of fiction created for entertainment purposes only. # …my destructive side has grown a mile wide And I question myself again: what it is ‘bout… Continue reading WHAT IT IS ‘BOUT MEN
Seven years ago... Mother, drenched in stale sweat, labored to bring us to life. We had overstayed our welcome in her aching, stretched womb and were now being expelled. I came first, my fists clenched, yowling like a street cat that had been unceremoniously dunked in a body of water. She followed in quick succession,… Continue reading IMADE & ME
Author’s note – FYI, this is part of an ongoing series. If you missed previous entries, refer here for how the site features are laid out and here to catch up! She stared expressionlessly as he crawled slowly along the side of the building, gasping for air. His snow-white agbada was soaked with the red crimson of blood that… Continue reading THE LAND, WHERE VIRTUE AND VILLAINY REVERSE ROLES
He’s been gone a mighty long time and I’ve been looking… Is that him in the white of the cotton dragon chasing a cotton princess against the backdrop of a blue sky? In the green of the springy grass poking out inquisitively from brown earth Or maybe that’s him teasing in the unseen wind blowing… Continue reading Seeking God
Author's Note - I'm slooooooowly fleshing out what may be a new book (yep, officially insane) inspired by the Yoruba pantheon and as part of doing so, I've begun to create vignettes to help with my world building...this is one with several more to come. Don't anticipate any will end up in a final version… Continue reading The First Journey
Break in writing transmission (I promise I have been writing, sorta…) to give an update on OUOC – the full local print is ready at last and can now be purchased directly from the author (that third-person bangs) or through a number of bookstores including Roving Heights. Quick recap on where OUOC can now be… Continue reading An OUOC Check-In!
Author's Note - First crack at flash fiction - written in a hour today! She walked in to see Grandma sitting on the chair, Which should not have been a problem, Only it was a problem because Grandma died three months ago, But here she was, nodding fondly as five-year Dima chattered away on her… Continue reading THE VISIT
An excerpt from the recently published Once Upon Our Childhood available globally at your favorite online book retailer and in print for international readers on Amazon! Local print release coming soon! PROLOGUE Four girls sat on the concrete ledge under the gum tree--two at each extreme end, creating a bracket around the other two in between. Three stood… Continue reading OUOC – An Excerpt
Worlds via Words 