writer, reader, traveler
Charleston’s foodways, language, folklore, art & architecture, and history are all evidence of a connection to the Caribbean that shaped not only the city itself, but the entire South as a region, and the nation as well.
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When Pokemon GO! released in the summer of 2016, it wasn’t my first encounter with a breed of monsters and ghosts unlike any elsewhere in the world: yōkai, the supernatural creatures of Japanese folklore…
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Yesterday, on his birthday, Erlon Rivers was mistaken for a ghost…
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By employing strands of existing and original folklore in the novel, Morrison depicts multiple ways in which her characters become trapped and freed, as well as how and whether they succeed in so freeing themselves.
Read MoreThat one took a lot longer than I expected.
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“You want me to go in with you?”
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It was late afternoon when Devin arrived at Laurel Oak…
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Lamar did not answer Devin’s calls or texts the week that followed the art walk…
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On third Fridays every other month, the city’s French Quarter galleries opened doors to anyone strolling in off the streets…
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She didn’t tell Lamar what she had actually seen in the woods till later that evening, in his studio…
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“If we’re going to do this,” Lamar said, “the best way is by water…”
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Ron Holbrooke was strangling her…
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Dark eyes, half-hid by the glare on his wire-frame glasses, and a bristly white mustache…
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“I don’t know how you can drink that in this heat,” Devin mused…
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Lamar’s Rio slid into the lot of a dive on the edge of town, some three or four miles up Sixty-one…
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The stranger thrust them on in short strokes, stabbing the creek with his paddle like a heron spearing fish…
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This is my attempt to be recklessly, unabashedly open about what has probably brought me more shame than anything in my entire life.
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