Stacie Evans writes fiction, essays, and poetry. She also writes and draws Adventures in Racism, a series of essays in comics form. Stacie is a four-time alum of the VONA Voices writing workshops for writers of color. She is currently studying to be an Undoing Racism workshop facilitator. She chairs the Board of Directors of WE LEARN, an organization dedicated to promoting women’s literacy as a tool for empowerment, equity, and social justice. Her work has appeared in New South, The Powder Room, After Ferguson, JustNoMore, two practitioner anthologies from Information Age Publishing, and Bitch Magazine. She writes online at “if you want kin, you must plant kin …”. She is @fatblackdiva on Twitter.
As the morning progresses I become less interested in where Zirrer had lived, and more interested in what brought him here to begin with. Why, I wonder, does a man choose to opt out of the world?
On the cusp of my 30th birthday and just days before the birth of our second child, I decide to do the practical thing and purchase a pair of nonfunctioning typewriters.
We searched for a lake monster on the shores of Lake Superior. This was sometime last July. My wife Meredith, son Henry, and I had headed north from Eau Claire,…
In September of 1932, just hours after his uncle’s funeral, twelve-year-old Ray Bradbury was walking down the familiar streets of Waukegan, Illinois when he spotted a carnival tent on the…